Create a new symbolic reference.

A symbolic reference is a reference name that refers to another reference name. If the other name moves, the symbolic name will move, too. As a simple example, the "HEAD" reference might refer to "refs/heads/master" while on the "master" branch of a repository.

The symbolic reference will be created in the repository and written to the disk. The generated reference object must be freed by the user.

Valid reference names must follow one of two patterns:

1. Top-level names must contain only capital letters and underscores, and must begin and end with a letter. (e.g. "HEAD", "ORIG_HEAD").
2. Names prefixed with "refs/" can be almost anything. You must avoid the characters '~', '^', ':', '
   ', '?', '[', and '*', and the sequences ".." and "@{" which have special meaning to revparse.

This function will return an error if a reference already exists with the given name unless force is true, in which case it will be overwritten.