Re: [ANNOUNCE] gitfs pre-release 0.04

Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:

Jakub Narebski wrote:

quoted

Not true. Symlink HEAD still works, and we have even core.preferSymlinkRefs
configuration variable.

Yes, but it has to be a symlink pointing into "refs/", not just a regular
file holding a hash value.  Which is fine for most purposes but sort of a
pain for me.

I'll probably have it be a symlink to "refs/gitfs-dynamic" or something and
then have "refs" be populated with that synthetic file and symlinks to
any of the normal contents of the refs directory.  Not too bad, but will
take a little bit of code.

You would have to wait a bit. There was talk on git mailing list about
allowing HEAD to point to non-head ref, or even bare sha1, only forbidding
committing to such HEAD (but allowing checkout of arbitrary revision,
not only branch, but also remote branch, tag, or branch~n).
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Jakub Narebski