Function parseRefFile

git/git.go:1091–1101

Manually parse a reference file like HEAD and return the Ref it resolves to

(filename string)

// Manually parse a reference file like HEAD and return the Ref it resolves to
func parseRefFile(filename string) (*Ref, error) {
	bytes, err := os.ReadFile(filename)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	contents := strings.TrimSpace(string(bytes))
	if strings.HasPrefix(contents, "ref:") {
		contents = strings.TrimSpace(contents[4:])
	}
	return ResolveRef(contents)
}

func parseDirFile(filename string) (string, error) {
	bytes, err := os.ReadFile(filename)