On Fri, Oct 11, 2024, at 22:51, Bence Ferdinandy wrote:

Hi,

the documentation for `git update-ref` has this sentence:

quoted

It also allows a "ref" file to be a symbolic pointer to another
ref file by starting with the four-byte header sequence of
"ref:".

After fumbling around a bit and getting errors like 

fatal: ref:refs/remotes/origin/test: not a valid SHA1

`ref: refs/remotes/origin/test`? (space after colon)