Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.44.0

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 09:16:49 -0800

Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]> writes:

> That's ultimately the reason why I don't want HEAD to look like a proper
> ref. But doing the "refs/heads/.invalid" workaround shouldn't be too bad,
> I guess.

Isn't the reason why reftable backend initializes refs/heads to be a
regular file exactly because we want to reject an attempt to create
such a file on the filesystem, though?