git-gui: Internalize symbolic-ref HEAD reading logic
To improve performance on fork+exec impoverished systems (such as
Windows) we want to avoid running git-symbolic-ref on every rescan
if we can do so. A quick way to implement such an avoidance is to
just read the HEAD ref ourselves; we'll either see it as a symref
(starts with "ref: ") or we'll see it as a detached head (40 hex
digits). In either case we can treat that as our current branch.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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