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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> You are answering "What is 'refs/' good for in the pathnames of files
> that store loose references?" I was asking "What is 'refs/' good for in
> the logical names of references?"
>
> It would have been totally possible to make the full name of a branch
> be, for example, "heads/master" and nevertheless store its loose
> reference in "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master". The obvious place to store
> HEAD in such a scheme would have been "$GIT_DIR/refs/HEAD" while still
> calling it "HEAD". This could have avoided the problem that we now have
> with pseudo-references like FETCH_HEAD being stored directly in $GIT_DIR.

I see; OK.