[Feature request] Git ref refs/release/latest
for the latest release
#123475
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The GitHub API has a way to ask for what the latest release is, but there's no way to get this information through the git protocol. As GitHub already has precedent for automatically creating special refs (the
refs/pull/
namespace), I'd really like to see it offer arefs/release/latest
ref that points at the latest release (either at the annotated tag for the latest release, or at the commit). This would really help when using tooling that understands how to resolve Git refs but doesn't know about the GitHub API. For example, with a ref like this, I could use it with Nix flakes to keep my dependencies set to the latest release rather thanHEAD
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