What's the recommended usage of a Git symbolic reference?

Question

The following shell code correctly creates a chain of symbolic references

git symbolic-ref \"first\" \"refs/heads/master\"
git symbolic-ref \"second\" \"firs         


        

Answer 1

Normally, symrefs live under refs/ — at least, this is what the git suite does (for example when using git filter-tree, you get refs/original/...). Some tools may choose to ignore refs that do not have the refs/ prefix.

$ git symbolic-ref refs/first refs/heads/master
$ git check-ref-format --print refs/first
refs/first