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How to get default branch name?

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, git
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the libgit2sharp API related to branches and remote references, then compare its available operations with git rev-parse --abbrev-ref origin/HEAD. Done means establishing whether the library already exposes the default branch name and, if not, defining the needed API behavior and documenting or testing it.

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Description

I am used to get the default branch name by running
git rev-parse --abbrev-ref origin/HEAD

but I can't find the equivalent on libgi2sharp
is this possible?

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C#
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