8e4cd2f537
If we previously fetched by revision, the output of "git ls-remote"
won't start with the expected line like
ref: refs/heads/master HEAD
but will be something like
5c4410e3b9891c05ab40d723de78c6f0be45ad30 refs/heads/5c4410e3b9891c05ab40d723de78c6f0be45ad30
This then causes Nix to treat that revision as a refname, which then
leads to warnings like
warning: could not update cached head '5c4410e3b9891c05ab40d723de78c6f0be45ad30' for 'file:///tmp/repo'
(cherry picked from commit c8b22643ba)
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