hn/reftable (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2021, #08; Mon, 27))

On Mon, Sep 27 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:

* hn/reftable (2021-09-10) 20 commits
 - fixup! reftable: implement stack, a mutable database of reftable files.
 - Add "test-tool dump-reftable" command.
 - reftable: add dump utility
 - reftable: implement stack, a mutable database of reftable files.
 - reftable: implement refname validation
 - reftable: add merged table view
 - reftable: add a heap-based priority queue for reftable records
 - reftable: reftable file level tests
 - reftable: read reftable files
 - reftable: generic interface to tables
 - reftable: write reftable files
 - reftable: a generic binary tree implementation
 - reftable: reading/writing blocks
 - Provide zlib's uncompress2 from compat/zlib-compat.c
 - reftable: (de)serialization for the polymorphic record type.
 - reftable: add blocksource, an abstraction for random access reads
 - reftable: utility functions
 - reftable: add error related functionality
 - reftable: RFC: add LICENSE
 - hash.h: provide constants for the hash IDs

 The "reftable" backend for the refs API, without integrating into
 the refs subsystem.

 Will merge to 'next'?

I think we've reached approximately "good enough" with this for the next
steps, and can hopefully fix any remaining nits (such as my [1])
post-merge.

Maybe hold off until Han-Wen gets a chance to ack it, and whether he's
ok with the proposed fixup(s)?

Wasn't there an outstanding "some of this in reftable/* should be static
functions" from someone, Carlo? (CC'd). In any case that sort of thing
could also be a post-cleanup, I couldn't find a reference to that
discussion in anything except my vague memory of it as I wrote this.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87wnn62nhp.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/ (local)