On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 04:41:25PM -0800, Elijah Newren wrote:

(I haven't looked much at reftable, so I can't opine on that question,
but Stolee's approach did seem eminently easier to review.  I did have
some questions about his proposal(s) because I didn't quite understand
them, in part due to being unfamiliar with the area.)

For what it's worth, I'm in the same boat as you are.

That being said, I do find it somewhat sad that we have reftable bits in
Junio's tree that don't appear to be progressing all that much. So as
much as I would like to see us have fewer reference backends, I'd rather
see whatever the "next-gen" backend be have good support and momentum,
even if that means carrying more code.

Thanks,
Taylor