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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

> Couldn't a RefTree be used to store refs that point to the base
> commit,

I think it is the other way around.  With the new "gitref" thing
that is a pointer to an in-repository commit, RefTree can be
naturally implemented.