On Sun, Oct 13, 2024, at 11:34, Phillip Wood wrote:

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I do not think update-ref is a tool to modify a symbolic-ref.

Didn't we add support for symbolic-refs to update-ref with
'kn/update-ref-symref'? Maybe it only works with --stdin? I've Cc'd
Karthik for clarification on how it is supposed to work.

Yes.  The man page says that you can use the `symref-update` command
with `--stdin`.

So the issue or confusion here seems to be that you have to use specific
commands for symrefs.  git-update-ref(1) won’t try to figure it out.

That seems in line with a plumbing command.

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Kristoffer Haugsbakk