Re: [PATCH] git-update-ref: add --no-deref option for overwriting/detaching ref

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:39:14PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:33:20PM CEST, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

quoted

git-checkout is also adapted to make use of this new option
instead of the handcrafted command sequence.

Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <redacted>

Isn't this what git-symbolic-ref is about?

You certainly can't use git-symbolic-ref now to overwrite a symbolic
ref by a non-symbolic ref.  It allows you to do the equivalent
of symlink/readlink, while we want to _remove_ the link here.

skimo