Yuki Kokubun <orga.chem....@gmail.com> writes: >> Yuki Kokubun <orga.chem....@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > "git filter-branch -- --all" can be confused when refs that refer to >> > objects >> > other than commits or tags exists. >> > Because "git rev-parse --all" that is internally used can return refs that >> > refer to an object other than commit or tag. But it is not considered in >> > the >> > phase of updating refs. >> >> Could you describe what the consequence of that is? We have a ref >> that points directly at a blob object, or a ref that points at a tag >> object that points at a blob object. The current code leaves both of >> these refs in "$tempdir/heads". Then...? > > Sorry, this is my wrong. > I wrongly thought only refs/replace can point at a blob or tree object.
No need to be sorry. You still need to describe what (bad things) happen if we do not filter out refs that do not point at committish in the proposed log message. IOW, can you elaborate and clarify your "can be confused" at the beginning?
