Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] bisect: use refs infrastructure for BISECT_START

From: David Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:21:30 -0400

On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 13:52 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> David Turner <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > This ref needs to go through the refs backend, since some code assumes
> > that it can be written and read as a ref.
> 
> And the reason why BISECT_HEAD cannot be treated as a ref, but must
> be treated as a file under $GIT_DIR, is...?

After running some tests on the long version of the series, we can and
should move it into the backend; will add a patch to the next reroll