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Using ref-format reftable instead of files shows as .invalid in recent repos #5609

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Describe the bug

Using reftable instead of files shows the current branch as .invalid in the recent repos menu (c-r)

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to a repo and migrate to reftable
  2. git refs migrate --ref-format=reftable
  3. Open another repo in lazygit and then to go the repo above
  4. See error .invalid next to repo name

Expected behavior

Using reftable should show current branch in the recent repo menu.

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Version info:

commit=d167063b4f45d044524f3fba97f850d1eec3f95c, build date=2026-04-13T20:06:40Z, build source=binaryRelease, version=0.61.1, os=linux, arch=amd64, git version=2.54.0

Terminal info:

fish --version
fish, version 3.7.0

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Note

Please try updating to the latest version or manually building the latest master to see if the issue still occurs.

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