Note

Medium Risk
Changes how branch is derived for remote status (null on detached HEAD vs "HEAD") and alters git failure paths; limited scope but may affect UI or consumers of statusDetailsRemote.

Overview
Remote VCS status and Alchemy telemetry now resolve the current branch with git symbolic-ref --quiet --short HEAD instead of git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD, so freshly initialized repos with no commits (unborn branches) still report a branch name.

In readStatusDetailsRemote, when symbolic-ref fails, the driver checks git rev-parse --verify --quiet HEAD and only errors if both fail; otherwise it treats the repo as valid (e.g. unborn). Detached HEAD is reported as branch: null rather than the string "HEAD".

A new integration test covers statusDetailsRemote on an initialized repo with no commits.

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Handle unborn branches in VCS status by switching to git symbolic-ref

• Replaces git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD with git symbolic-ref --quiet --short HEAD in GitVcsDriverCore.ts for branch discovery, which correctly handles unborn branches (repos with no commits).
• When symbolic-ref fails (e.g. detached HEAD), a fallback git rev-parse --verify --quiet HEAD check runs; only if both fail does the function return an error. Branch is set to null when symbolic-ref fails but HEAD is still valid.
• Adds a test case for empty repositories in GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts asserting isRepo: true, branch equals the symbolic-ref output, and hasUpstream: false.
• Behavioral Change: statusDetailsRemote no longer errors on detached HEAD or unborn branches; it now returns branch: null in those cases instead.

^{Macroscope summarized a53c8a0.}