Re: What's the definition of a valid Git symbolic reference?

On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Emeric Fermas wrote:

- As check-ref-format fails when being passed "first", does this mean
that it's not recommended to create a symbolic reference at the same
level than "HEAD"? Or maybe this command is not intended to deal with
symbolic links ?

I don't know about the rest of your question, but check-ref-format
explicitly states in the manpage that the refname must have at least
one /, to enforce the presence of a category (such as heads/) in the
refname.

-Kevin Ballard