Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:
I can see two options:
1. Refactor these interfaces such that they take a file descriptor as
input that they are writing to. This would allow us to exercise
that the output is correct.
2. Rip out this function. I don't think this functionality should be
part of the library in the first place, and it really only exists
because of "reftable/dump.c".
I think the latter is the better option. The functionality exists to
drive `cmd__dump_reftable()` in our reftable test helper. We should
likely make the whole implementation of this an internal implementation
detail and not expose it.
Thanks for a review. Are there anything other than removing this
step that this series needs?