Support for reftables in git repos

Git (3.0) will be converting to use reftable format.

I tried for an existing git repo (copied to a temp folder), and the prompt shown is unable to determine the branch name

(the first prompt with invalid is for the same repo converted to using reftables, whereas the 2nd prompt shows for the non-reftable clone)

Seems to be dependent on this change in libgit2: libgit2/libgit2#7117

I discovered that all my repositories are with the new format.
It took some time to understand why powerlevel does not display branches.

Before it is fixed, you can:

git refs migrate --ref-format=files

@vraravam

@vraravam @mdcclv @NN--- @Freed-Wu I've forked gitstatusd and my version supports --ref-format=reftable

brew install simnalamburt/x/gitstatus
export GITSTATUS_DAEMON=/opt/homebrew/bin/gitstatusd

No need to touch p10k. Just replace the gitstatusd with mine.

All I did was fork gitstatusd and update its libgit2 dependency to the latest version.

For the context behind why this fork exists, please refer to the following link: romkatv/gitstatus#455 (comment)

@simnalamburt

thanks @simnalamburt - but, I have moved away from p10k to starship.

OK 🥺 but p10k is still faster than starship though 🥺

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