commit 2a4be948788dfe5ae9437b048fba229a96bbff2d
author Renaud Paquay <rpaquay@google.com> Tue Nov 01 13:48:15 2016 -0700
committer Renaud Paquay <rpaquay@google.com> Thu Aug 31 12:13:52 2017 -0700
tree 27c700887158c27b819992f507dfb2504dc7d101
parent 9d743397bfceae24a12a566ac1f4d5f968ba2779

Handle Windows line endings when reading binary files

Without this change, '.git\HEAD' files, for examples, are sometime
read incorrectly resulting in the current branch to be reset to
"master" when running a "repo init -b xxx" on an already initialized
repository.

Change-Id: I48c7ef85ff81626edf156914329a560e14252f2a

git_refs.py

diff --git a/git_refs.py b/git_refs.py
index 58c838a..7feaffb 100644
--- a/git_refs.py
+++ b/git_refs.py
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
 
   def _ReadLoose1(self, path, name):
     try:
-      fd = open(path, 'rb')
+      fd = open(path)
     except IOError:
       return