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<title>git/Makefile, branch v2.45.3</title>
<subtitle>Mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/
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<updated>2024-04-16T21:50:29Z</updated>
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<title>Merge branch 'tb/make-indent-conditional-with-non-spaces'</title>
<updated>2024-04-16T21:50:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-16T21:50:29Z</published>
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Adjust to an upcoming changes to GNU make that breaks our Makefiles.

* tb/make-indent-conditional-with-non-spaces:
  Makefile(s): do not enforce "all indents must be done with tab"
  Makefile(s): avoid recipe prefix in conditional statements
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<entry>
<title>Makefile(s): avoid recipe prefix in conditional statements</title>
<updated>2024-04-08T21:42:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Taylor Blau</name>
<email>me@ttaylorr.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-08T15:51:44Z</published>
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In GNU Make commit 07fcee35 ([SV 64815] Recipe lines cannot contain
conditional statements, 2023-05-22) and following, conditional
statements may no longer be preceded by a tab character (which Make
refers to as the recipe prefix).

There are a handful of spots in our various Makefile(s) which will break
in a future release of Make containing 07fcee35. For instance, trying to
compile the pre-image of this patch with the tip of make.git results in
the following:

    $ make -v | head -1 &amp;&amp; make
    GNU Make 4.4.90
    config.mak.uname:842: *** missing 'endif'.  Stop.

The kernel addressed this issue in 82175d1f9430 (kbuild: Replace tabs
with spaces when followed by conditionals, 2024-01-28). Address the
issues in Git's tree by applying the same strategy.

When a conditional word (ifeq, ifneq, ifdef, etc.) is preceded by one or
more tab characters, replace each tab character with 8 space characters
with the following:

    find . -type f -not -path './.git/*' -name Makefile -or -name '*.mak' |
      xargs perl -i -pe '
        s/(\t+)(ifn?eq|ifn?def|else|endif)/" " x (length($1) * 8) . $2/ge unless /\\$/
      '

The "unless /\\$/" removes any false-positives (like "\telse \"
appearing within a shell script as part of a recipe).

After doing so, Git compiles on newer versions of Make:

    $ make -v | head -1 &amp;&amp; make
    GNU Make 4.4.90
    GIT_VERSION = 2.44.0.414.gfac1dc44ca9
    [...]

    $ echo $?
    0

Reported-by: Dario Gjorgjevski &lt;dario.gjorgjevski@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau &lt;me@ttaylorr.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>midx-write: move writing-related functions from midx.c</title>
<updated>2024-04-01T21:18:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Taylor Blau</name>
<email>me@ttaylorr.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-01T21:16:34Z</published>
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Introduce a new midx-write.c source file, which holds all of the
functionality from the MIDX sub-system related to writing new MIDX files.

Similar to the relationship between "pack-bitmap.c" and
"pack-bitmap-write.c", this source file will hold code that is specific
to writing MIDX files as opposed to reading them (the latter will remain
in midx.c).

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau &lt;me@ttaylorr.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'bt/fuzz-config-parse'</title>
<updated>2024-03-28T21:13:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-28T21:13:51Z</published>
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A new fuzz target that exercises config parsing code has been
added.

* bt/fuzz-config-parse:
  fuzz: add fuzzer for config parsing
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'eb/hash-transition'</title>
<updated>2024-03-28T21:13:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-28T21:13:50Z</published>
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Work to support a repository that work with both SHA-1 and SHA-256
hash algorithms has started.

* eb/hash-transition: (30 commits)
  t1016-compatObjectFormat: add tests to verify the conversion between objects
  t1006: test oid compatibility with cat-file
  t1006: rename sha1 to oid
  test-lib: compute the compatibility hash so tests may use it
  builtin/ls-tree: let the oid determine the output algorithm
  object-file: handle compat objects in check_object_signature
  tree-walk: init_tree_desc take an oid to get the hash algorithm
  builtin/cat-file: let the oid determine the output algorithm
  rev-parse: add an --output-object-format parameter
  repository: implement extensions.compatObjectFormat
  object-file: update object_info_extended to reencode objects
  object-file-convert: convert commits that embed signed tags
  object-file-convert: convert commit objects when writing
  object-file-convert: don't leak when converting tag objects
  object-file-convert: convert tag objects when writing
  object-file-convert: add a function to convert trees between algorithms
  object: factor out parse_mode out of fast-import and tree-walk into in object.h
  cache: add a function to read an OID of a specific algorithm
  tag: sign both hashes
  commit: export add_header_signature to support handling signatures on tags
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fuzz: add fuzzer for config parsing</title>
<updated>2024-03-15T17:47:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian C Tracy</name>
<email>brian.tracy33@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-15T05:47:31Z</published>
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Add a new fuzz target that exercises the parsing of git configs.
The existing git_config_from_mem function is a perfect entry point
for fuzzing as it exercises the same code paths as the rest of the
config parsing functions and offers an easily fuzzable interface.

Config parsing is a useful thing to fuzz because it operates on user
controlled data and is a central component of many git operations.

Signed-off-by: Brian C Tracy &lt;brian.tracy33@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ps/reftable-backend'</title>
<updated>2024-02-27T02:10:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-27T02:10:23Z</published>
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Integrate the reftable code into the refs framework as a backend.

* ps/reftable-backend:
  refs/reftable: fix leak when copying reflog fails
  ci: add jobs to test with the reftable backend
  refs: introduce reftable backend
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'jk/unit-tests-buildfix'</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T21:20:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-08T21:20:33Z</published>
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Build dependency around unit tests has been fixed.

* jk/unit-tests-buildfix:
  t/Makefile: say the default target upfront
  t/Makefile: get UNIT_TESTS list from C sources
  Makefile: remove UNIT_TEST_BIN directory with "make clean"
  Makefile: use mkdir_p_parent_template for UNIT_TEST_BIN
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'cp/unit-test-prio-queue'</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T21:20:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-08T21:20:33Z</published>
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The priority queue test has been migrated to the unit testing
framework.

* cp/unit-test-prio-queue:
  tests: move t0009-prio-queue.sh to the new unit testing framework
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<entry>
<title>refs: introduce reftable backend</title>
<updated>2024-02-07T16:28:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-07T07:20:31Z</published>
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Due to scalability issues, Shawn Pearce has originally proposed a new
"reftable" format more than six years ago [1]. Initially, this new
format was implemented in JGit with promising results. Around two years
ago, we have then added the "reftable" library to the Git codebase via
a4bbd13be3 (Merge branch 'hn/reftable', 2021-12-15). With this we have
landed all the low-level code to read and write reftables. Notably
missing though was the integration of this low-level code into the Git
code base in the form of a new ref backend that ties all of this
together.

This gap is now finally closed by introducing a new "reftable" backend
into the Git codebase. This new backend promises to bring some notable
improvements to Git repositories:

  - It becomes possible to do truly atomic writes where either all refs
    are committed to disk or none are. This was not possible with the
    "files" backend because ref updates were split across multiple loose
    files.

  - The disk space required to store many refs is reduced, both compared
    to loose refs and packed-refs. This is enabled both by the reftable
    format being a binary format, which is more compact, and by prefix
    compression.

  - We can ignore filesystem-specific behaviour as ref names are not
    encoded via paths anymore. This means there is no need to handle
    case sensitivity on Windows systems or Unicode precomposition on
    macOS.

  - There is no need to rewrite the complete refdb anymore every time a
    ref is being deleted like it was the case for packed-refs. This
    means that ref deletions are now constant time instead of scaling
    linearly with the number of refs.

  - We can ignore file/directory conflicts so that it becomes possible
    to store both "refs/heads/foo" and "refs/heads/foo/bar".

  - Due to this property we can retain reflogs for deleted refs. We have
    previously been deleting reflogs together with their refs to avoid
    file/directory conflicts, which is not necessary anymore.

  - We can properly enumerate all refs. With the "files" backend it is
    not easily possible to distinguish between refs and non-refs because
    they may live side by side in the gitdir.

Not all of these improvements are realized with the current "reftable"
backend implementation. At this point, the new backend is supposed to be
a drop-in replacement for the "files" backend that is used by basically
all Git repositories nowadays. It strives for 1:1 compatibility, which
means that a user can expect the same behaviour regardless of whether
they use the "reftable" backend or the "files" backend for most of the
part.

Most notably, this means we artificially limit the capabilities of the
"reftable" backend to match the limits of the "files" backend. It is not
possible to create refs that would end up with file/directory conflicts,
we do not retain reflogs, we perform stricter-than-necessary checks.
This is done intentionally due to two main reasons:

  - It makes it significantly easier to land the "reftable" backend as
    tests behave the same. It would be tough to argue for each and every
    single test that doesn't pass with the "reftable" backend.

  - It ensures compatibility between repositories that use the "files"
    backend and repositories that use the "reftable" backend. Like this,
    hosters can migrate their repositories to use the "reftable" backend
    without causing issues for clients that use the "files" backend in
    their clones.

It is expected that these artificial limitations may eventually go away
in the long term.

Performance-wise things very much depend on the actual workload. The
following benchmarks compare the "files" and "reftable" backends in the
current version:

  - Creating N refs in separate transactions shows that the "files"
    backend is ~50% faster. This is not surprising given that creating a
    ref only requires us to create a single loose ref. The "reftable"
    backend will also perform auto compaction on updates. In real-world
    workloads we would likely also want to perform pack loose refs,
    which would likely change the picture.

        Benchmark 1: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       2.1 ms ±   0.3 ms    [User: 0.6 ms, System: 1.7 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.8 ms …   4.3 ms    133 runs

        Benchmark 2: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       2.7 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.6 ms, System: 2.2 ms]
          Range (min … max):     2.4 ms …   2.9 ms    132 runs

        Benchmark 3: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):      1.975 s ±  0.006 s    [User: 0.437 s, System: 1.535 s]
          Range (min … max):    1.969 s …  1.980 s    3 runs

        Benchmark 4: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):      2.611 s ±  0.013 s    [User: 0.782 s, System: 1.825 s]
          Range (min … max):    2.597 s …  2.622 s    3 runs

        Benchmark 5: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = files, refcount = 100000)
          Time (mean ± σ):     198.442 s ±  0.241 s    [User: 43.051 s, System: 155.250 s]
          Range (min … max):   198.189 s … 198.670 s    3 runs

        Benchmark 6: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = reftable, refcount = 100000)
          Time (mean ± σ):     294.509 s ±  4.269 s    [User: 104.046 s, System: 190.326 s]
          Range (min … max):   290.223 s … 298.761 s    3 runs

  - Creating N refs in a single transaction shows that the "files"
    backend is significantly slower once we start to write many refs.
    The "reftable" backend only needs to update two files, whereas the
    "files" backend needs to write one file per ref.

        Benchmark 1: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.9 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.4 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.8 ms …   2.6 ms    151 runs

        Benchmark 2: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       2.5 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.7 ms, System: 1.7 ms]
          Range (min … max):     2.4 ms …   3.4 ms    148 runs

        Benchmark 3: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):     152.5 ms ±   5.2 ms    [User: 19.1 ms, System: 133.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):   148.5 ms … 167.8 ms    15 runs

        Benchmark 4: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):      58.0 ms ±   2.5 ms    [User: 28.4 ms, System: 29.4 ms]
          Range (min … max):    56.3 ms …  72.9 ms    40 runs

        Benchmark 5: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000)
          Time (mean ± σ):     152.752 s ±  0.710 s    [User: 20.315 s, System: 131.310 s]
          Range (min … max):   152.165 s … 153.542 s    3 runs

        Benchmark 6: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000)
          Time (mean ± σ):     51.912 s ±  0.127 s    [User: 26.483 s, System: 25.424 s]
          Range (min … max):   51.769 s … 52.012 s    3 runs

  - Deleting a ref in a fully-packed repository shows that the "files"
    backend scales with the number of refs. The "reftable" backend has
    constant-time deletions.

        Benchmark 1: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.7 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.2 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.6 ms …   2.1 ms    316 runs

        Benchmark 2: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.8 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.3 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.7 ms …   2.1 ms    294 runs

        Benchmark 3: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       2.0 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.5 ms, System: 1.4 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.9 ms …   2.5 ms    287 runs

        Benchmark 4: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.9 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.5 ms, System: 1.3 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.8 ms …   2.1 ms    217 runs

        Benchmark 5: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000)
          Time (mean ± σ):     229.8 ms ±   7.9 ms    [User: 182.6 ms, System: 46.8 ms]
          Range (min … max):   224.6 ms … 245.2 ms    6 runs

        Benchmark 6: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       2.0 ms ±   0.0 ms    [User: 0.6 ms, System: 1.3 ms]
          Range (min … max):     2.0 ms …   2.1 ms    3 runs

  - Listing all refs shows no significant advantage for either of the
    backends. The "files" backend is a bit faster, but not by a
    significant margin. When repositories are not packed the "reftable"
    backend outperforms the "files" backend because the "reftable"
    backend performs auto-compaction.

        Benchmark 1: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1, packed = true)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.5 ms …   2.0 ms    1729 runs

        Benchmark 2: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1, packed = true)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.5 ms …   1.8 ms    1816 runs

        Benchmark 3: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000, packed = true)
          Time (mean ± σ):       4.3 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.9 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
          Range (min … max):     4.1 ms …   4.6 ms    645 runs

        Benchmark 4: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000, packed = true)
          Time (mean ± σ):       4.5 ms ±   0.2 ms    [User: 1.0 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
          Range (min … max):     4.2 ms …   5.9 ms    643 runs

        Benchmark 5: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000, packed = true)
          Time (mean ± σ):      2.537 s ±  0.034 s    [User: 0.488 s, System: 2.048 s]
          Range (min … max):    2.511 s …  2.627 s    10 runs

        Benchmark 6: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000, packed = true)
          Time (mean ± σ):      2.712 s ±  0.017 s    [User: 0.653 s, System: 2.059 s]
          Range (min … max):    2.692 s …  2.752 s    10 runs

        Benchmark 7: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1, packed = false)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.5 ms …   1.9 ms    1834 runs

        Benchmark 8: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1, packed = false)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.4 ms …   2.0 ms    1840 runs

        Benchmark 9: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000, packed = false)
          Time (mean ± σ):      13.8 ms ±   0.2 ms    [User: 2.8 ms, System: 10.8 ms]
          Range (min … max):    13.3 ms …  14.5 ms    208 runs

        Benchmark 10: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000, packed = false)
          Time (mean ± σ):       4.5 ms ±   0.2 ms    [User: 1.2 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
          Range (min … max):     4.3 ms …   6.2 ms    624 runs

        Benchmark 11: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000, packed = false)
          Time (mean ± σ):     12.127 s ±  0.129 s    [User: 2.675 s, System: 9.451 s]
          Range (min … max):   11.965 s … 12.370 s    10 runs

        Benchmark 12: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000, packed = false)
          Time (mean ± σ):      2.799 s ±  0.022 s    [User: 0.735 s, System: 2.063 s]
          Range (min … max):    2.769 s …  2.836 s    10 runs

  - Printing a single ref shows no real difference between the "files"
    and "reftable" backends.

        Benchmark 1: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.5 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.0 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.4 ms …   1.8 ms    1779 runs

        Benchmark 2: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.4 ms …   2.5 ms    1753 runs

        Benchmark 3: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.5 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.3 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.4 ms …   1.9 ms    1840 runs

        Benchmark 4: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.5 ms …   2.0 ms    1831 runs

        Benchmark 5: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.5 ms …   2.1 ms    1848 runs

        Benchmark 6: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.5 ms …   2.1 ms    1762 runs

So overall, performance depends on the usecases. Except for many
sequential writes the "reftable" backend is roughly on par or
significantly faster than the "files" backend though. Given that the
"files" backend has received 18 years of optimizations by now this can
be seen as a win. Furthermore, we can expect that the "reftable" backend
will grow faster over time when attention turns more towards
optimizations.

The complete test suite passes, except for those tests explicitly marked
to require the REFFILES prerequisite. Some tests in t0610 are marked as
failing because they depend on still-in-flight bug fixes. Tests can be
run with the new backend by setting the GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT
environment variable to "reftable".

There is a single known conceptual incompatibility with the dumb HTTP
transport. As "info/refs" SHOULD NOT contain the HEAD reference, and
because the "HEAD" file is not valid anymore, it is impossible for the
remote client to figure out the default branch without changing the
protocol. This shortcoming needs to be handled in a subsequent patch
series.

As the reftable library has already been introduced a while ago, this
commit message will not go into the details of how exactly the on-disk
format works. Please refer to our preexisting technical documentation at
Documentation/technical/reftable for this.

[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAJo=hJtyof=HRy=2sLP0ng0uZ4=S-DpZ5dR1aF+VHVETKG20OQ@mail.gmail.com/

Original-idea-by: Shawn Pearce &lt;spearce@spearce.org&gt;
Based-on-patch-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys &lt;hanwen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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