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I understand the concepts behind refs/heads/, refs/remotes/, and refs/tags/. From time to time, I stumble upon Git references in refs/for/. What are these? Where do they point to? What does for stand for?

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It's not part of regular git, it's part of gerrit

There's a good explanation of it here

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