rebase: factor out reference parsing

diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes
index 115c33553bb99a5ac6c21c2ac0f33ab7b48a4901..b942e499449d97aeb50c73ca2bdc1c6e6d528743 120000 (symlink)
--- a/RelNotes
+++ b/RelNotes
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.6.txt
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+Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
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