refs: refactor logic to look up storage backends

In order to look up ref storage backends, we're currently using a linked
list of backends, where each backend is expected to set up its `next`
pointer to the next ref storage backend. This is kind of a weird setup
as backends need to be aware of other backends without much of a reason.

Refactor the code so that the array of backends is centrally defined in
"refs.c", where each backend is now identified by an integer constant.
Expose functions to translate from those integer constants to the name
and vice versa, which will be required by subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-29 08:26:34 +01:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 465a22b338
commit 0fcc285c5e
7 changed files with 31 additions and 13 deletions

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@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ struct string_list;
struct string_list_item;
struct worktree;
unsigned int ref_storage_format_by_name(const char *name);
const char *ref_storage_format_to_name(unsigned int ref_storage_format);
/*
* Resolve a reference, recursively following symbolic refererences.
*