Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkout: fix attribute handling in checkout all

David Kastrup [off-list ref] writes:

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Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

    $ git update-ref --no-deref HEAD $(git rev-parse v1.5.3-rc4^0)

Is there a fundamental difference to using

git-symbolic-ref HEAD $(git rev-parse v1.5.3-rc4^0)

here?

The symbolic-ref command is about setting the HEAD to "point at
a(nother) ref".  There is no point talking about "fundamental
difference" here --- the latter is plain wrong, feeding
rev-parse output (which is an object name) as its second
parameter.

Did you mean to ask about the difference between "git-update-ref
HEAD $param" with or without --no-deref?

With --no-deref, it makes the HEAD detached even when HEAD is a
symref that points at a ref, e.g. "refs/heads/master".  Without
that option, it updates the ref that is pointed at by the HEAD
symref.