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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 2005-09-25 09:59:37 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-10-01 23:19:32 -0700 |
commit | ca8db1424d1808a1f78bc9905efd267f7c154d8e (patch) | |
tree | fc2086ca262fc07a0da736b5a46f872b9ecc9cda /init-db.c | |
parent | 9b143c6e155a8eead165b2a813b533e0f3e0018a (diff) | |
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[PATCH] Allow reading "symbolic refs" that point to other refs
This extends the ref reading to understand a "symbolic ref": a ref file
that starts with "ref: " and points to another ref file, and thus
introduces the notion of ref aliases.
This is in preparation of allowing HEAD to eventually not be a symlink,
but one of these symbolic refs instead.
[jc: Linus originally required the prefix to be "ref: " five bytes
and nothing else, but I changed it to allow and strip any number of
leading whitespaces to match what update-ref.c does.]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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