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-rw-r--r--git/refs/symbolic.py4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/git/refs/symbolic.py b/git/refs/symbolic.py
index 1470c879..1e361244 100644
--- a/git/refs/symbolic.py
+++ b/git/refs/symbolic.py
@@ -129,7 +129,9 @@ class SymbolicReference(object):
fp = open(join(repo.git_dir, ref_path), 'r')
value = fp.read().rstrip()
fp.close()
- tokens = value.split(" ")
+ # Don't only split on spaces, but on whitespace, which allows to parse lines like
+ # 60b64ef992065e2600bfef6187a97f92398a9144 branch 'master' of git-server:/path/to/repo
+ tokens = value.split()
except (OSError, IOError):
# Probably we are just packed, find our entry in the packed refs file
# NOTE: We are not a symbolic ref if we are in a packed file, as these