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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] ignoring a fetch that overwrites local symref
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

>> Work it around by noticing a wildcard match that attempts to update
>> a local symbolic ref and ignoring it.
>
> At what point should we just support symrefs on the protocol? :-(

I think it is entirely an orthogonal matter.  When we learn that the
other side now has this ref as a symref pointing to this other ref,
an update of the local ref on the RHS of the refspec that has such a
symref on its LHS will not be using the current codepath to call
update_ref() to write the object name thru an existing symref.