Function readLocalExperimentState

pkg/cli/experiments_command.go:609–616

readLocalExperimentState reads state.json from a local git ref (e.g. "origin/experiments/foo"). Returns an empty state when the file is absent or cannot be parsed.

(ref string)

// readLocalExperimentState reads state.json from a local git ref (e.g. "origin/experiments/foo").
// Returns an empty state when the file is absent or cannot be parsed.
func readLocalExperimentState(ref string) *ExperimentState {
	cmd := exec.Command("git", "show", ref+":state.json")
	out, err := cmd.Output()
	if err != nil {
		return emptyExperimentState()
	}
	return parseExperimentState(out)
}

// readRemoteExperimentState fetches state.json from an experiments/* branch via the GitHub API.
// Returns an empty state on any error (branch missing, file absent, parse failure).