* to fetch then we can mark the ref entry in the list
* as one to ignore by setting util to NULL.
*/
- if (!strcmp(ref->name + strlen(ref->name) - 3, "^{}")) {
+ if (!suffixcmp(ref->name, "^{}")) {
if (item && !has_sha1_file(ref->old_sha1) &&
!will_fetch(head, ref->old_sha1) &&
!has_sha1_file(item->util) &&