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add_worktree fails with non-bare repo

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start with the _pygit2.add_worktree, _pygit2.lookup_reference, and _pygit2.raw_listall_references entry points. Reproduce the reported call with both bare and non-bare repositories and inspect how the reference is handled. Done means adding a worktree from the fetched reference works for a non-bare repository without the "reference is not a branch" error.

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Description

I'm trying to add a worktree with

_pygit2.add_worktree(name, path, _pygit2.lookup_reference(ref))

ref is fetched using _pygit2.raw_listall_references(). This works for bare git repo.

In case of non-bare git repo, it fails with,
_pygit2.GitError: reference is not a branch

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