rebase: factor out reference parsing

diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes
index f84c4c7f11b0d2df58151efc5dcc01da4ebd4be6..b942e499449d97aeb50c73ca2bdc1c6e6d528743 120000 (symlink)
--- a/RelNotes
+++ b/RelNotes
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.4.txt
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+Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
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