Re: Git --reference bug(?)

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

0397236d43e48e821cce5bbe6a80a1a56bb7cc3a	refs/tags/v2.6.12-rc3
a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb	refs/tags/v2.6.12-rc3^{}
[...]

I've never seen this format before; is this the remote protocol for
peeled refs or maybe the behavior of an old version of git?

This should be very well documented and has been the output from fairly
early days of ls-remote.

I take the first half back. The ls-remote documentation seems to have
bit-rotten quite a bit.

IIRC, we started doing this when we introduced auto-following of the tag
objects. Even update-server-info knows about it so it way predates smart
HTTP and is a fairly old and established behaviour.