From 222b1673860bba6c75895ce3e2d1467fb878fa2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:02:09 -0800
Subject: Revert "validate_headref: tighten ref-matching to just branches"

This reverts commit b229d18a809c169314b7f0d048dc5a7632e8f916, at least
until we figure out how to work better with TopGit that points HEAD to
refs/top-bases/ hierarchy.

diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
index dd22370..4b9107f 100644
--- a/path.c
+++ b/path.c
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ int validate_headref(const char *path)
 	/* Make sure it is a "refs/.." symlink */
 	if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
 		len = readlink(path, buffer, sizeof(buffer)-1);
-		if (len >= 11 && !memcmp("refs/heads/", buffer, 11))
+		if (len >= 5 && !memcmp("refs/", buffer, 5))
 			return 0;
 		return -1;
 	}
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int validate_headref(const char *path)
 		len -= 4;
 		while (len && isspace(*buf))
 			buf++, len--;
-		if (len >= 11 && !memcmp("refs/heads/", buf, 11))
+		if (len >= 5 && !memcmp("refs/", buf, 5))
 			return 0;
 	}
 
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