Fixes #2064.

Bug

GitPython raises UnicodeDecodeError when iterating .git/packed-refs if a packed ref name contains bytes that are not valid UTF-8.

Git ref names are byte strings and are not guaranteed to contain valid UTF-8. A single non-UTF-8 ref should not make the entire packed-refs file unreadable.

Root Cause

SymbolicReference._iter_packed_refs() opened packed-refs in text mode with strict UTF-8 decoding:

open(..., "rt", encoding="UTF-8")

This caused UnicodeDecodeError when a packed ref contained non-UTF-8 bytes.

Fix

Read packed-refs in binary mode and decode each line using surrogateescape.

This follows the existing lenient byte-to-string handling used elsewhere in GitPython and preserves the original bytes during round-tripping instead of raising an exception.

Regression Test

Added a regression test covering a packed ref containing a non-UTF-8 byte and verifying that iterating packed refs does not raise UnicodeDecodeError.

Validation

• Targeted regression test: passed
• test/test_refs.py: regression test passed
• ruff check: passed
• ruff format --check: passed
• git diff --check: passed