diff --git a/plugins/git4idea/src/git4idea/repo/GitRepositoryReader.java b/plugins/git4idea/src/git4idea/repo/GitRepositoryReader.java
index e0c63f6f7a98..892791fcff5c 100644
--- a/plugins/git4idea/src/git4idea/repo/GitRepositoryReader.java
+++ b/plugins/git4idea/src/git4idea/repo/GitRepositoryReader.java
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger;
 import com.intellij.openapi.util.Condition;
 import com.intellij.openapi.util.Pair;
 import com.intellij.openapi.util.io.FileUtil;
-import com.intellij.openapi.util.text.StringUtil;
+import com.intellij.openapi.util.text.LineTokenizer;
 import com.intellij.util.Function;
 import com.intellij.util.Processor;
 import com.intellij.util.containers.ContainerUtil;
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ class GitRepositoryReader {
     }
     try {
       String content = DvcsUtil.tryLoadFile(myPackedRefsFile);
-      return ContainerUtil.map2MapNotNull(StringUtil.splitByLines(content), new Function<String, Pair<String, String>>() {
+      return ContainerUtil.map2MapNotNull(LineTokenizer.tokenize(content, false), new Function<String, Pair<String, String>>() {
         @Override
         public Pair<String, String> fun(String line) {
           return parsePackedRefsLine(line);