Subject: Re: with git update-ref?

From: "Bence Ferdinandy" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 23:04:17 +0200

On Fri Oct 11, 2024 at 22:56, Kristoffer Haugsbakk <[email-masked]> wrote:
> `ref: refs/remotes/origin/test`? (space after colon)

I tried a couple of variations and no:

❯ git update-ref --no-deref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 'ref: refs/remotes/origin/test'
fatal: ref: refs/remotes/origin/test: not a valid SHA1
❯ git update-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 'ref: refs/remotes/origin/test'
fatal: ref: refs/remotes/origin/test: not a valid SHA1
❯ git update-ref --no-deref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 'ref:refs/remotes/origin/test'
fatal: ref:refs/remotes/origin/test: not a valid SHA1
❯ git update-ref  refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 'ref:refs/remotes/origin/test'
fatal: ref:refs/remotes/origin/test: not a valid SHA1

I guess the intended way of doing this is via git symbolic-ref anyway, but I'm
curious if this should work somehow or I'm misinterpreting the meaning of that
sentence.

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