Re: [PATCH 00/29] Yet more preparation for reference backends

On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 18:57 +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:

This started as a modest attempt to move the last couple of patches
mentioned here [1] to before the vtable patches. I wanted to do that
because having real changes mixed with the vtable refactoring was
making rebasing and stuff awkward.

But then it snowballed. A lot of what's new is pretty trivial (though
in some cases fixes minor bugs). But a few of the later patches are
pretty major.

Apart from the comments on one patch that I sent, this looks good to
me.  I'm a bit worried about the impact on lmdb (which doesn't do
"locking" the same way), but I think it will probably work out.  Since
Michael has been rebasing the pluggable-refs-backend code on top of
this, he's probably got a good sense that it doesn't do too much
violence to the plugin infrastructure.