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

From: David Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:22:53 -0400

On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 19:21 -0400, David Turner wrote:
> 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

Actually, I've looked into this further. BISECT_START isn't a ref
because it contains the ref name that the bisection started from (not a
symbolic ref).  BISECT_HEAD is a ref.  Will fix.