Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] rebase: skip branch symref aliases

Phillip Wood <[email protected]> writes:

>> But stepping back a bit, is having a HEAD that is a symref and
>> points outside "refs/heads/" an invalid state?  Why are we catering
>> to such a configuration to begin with?
>
> We allow HEAD to point to anything below "refs/" - see e9cc02f0e4 
> (symbolic-ref: allow refs/<whatever> in HEAD, 2009-02-13).

But that was about a low level mechanism that must be more lenient
to be usable as repair tools to recover from such a broken state,
no?  I thought the end-user facing commands like "git checkout" have
been tightened long ago to stop users from getting into a situation
that needs repairing in the first place.  And that was why I asked.