On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Carl Baldwin wrote:

> This is interesting.  Can a ref be to a tree rather than a commit?  And
> it still works?  I guess it would.  I hadn't thought about that.

Generally, each subdirectory of refs/ has refs to objects of the same
type, and heads/ is commits, but other directories are other things. tags/
is all tag objects, and you could have undo/ be trees.

> Will prune preserve any tree mentioned in any file in refs?  How does
> this work exactly?

It keeps any object reachable from an object that there's a ref to in
refs.

        -Daniel
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