Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] add ref content check for files backend

Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

+* Support for core.prefersymlinkrefs will be dropped.  Support for
+  existing repositories that use symbolic links to represent a
+  symbolic ref may or may not be dropped.
++
+Cf. [ref]
+
 == Superseded features that will not be deprecated

...
We should probably do the above together with a new check that starts to
warn about symbolic links in "refs/" such that users become aware of
this deprecation. We'd have to grow the infrastructure to also scan root
refs though, which to the best of my knowledge we don't currently scan.

Yup, that is why the above suggestion is on _this_ thread that is
about the "check for curiously formatted symrefs, in the hope that
we can retroactively tighten our checks later" topic.