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Stefan Haller cb12cb2f6b Add Status.RefsSnapshot
A cheap fingerprint of local branches and HEAD that future code can poll to
detect when refs have moved externally.

Branches come from a porcelain for-each-ref. HEAD is read directly from
.git/HEAD: that avoids spawning a child process and captures the symref-or-hash
distinction we need to tell "detached at X" apart from "on a branch pointing at
X" — they share a commit hash, which is exactly the situation at the end of a
rebase when HEAD reattaches to the branch. The reftable backend doesn't keep a
real .git/HEAD (it writes a fixed stub), so when we see that stub or the file is
unreadable we fall back to porcelain commands, which are backend-agnostic.

Uses DontLog so a future polling caller won't spam the command log. Not yet
wired up to any caller.
2026-06-19 18:07:48 +02:00