When realloc(3) fails, it returns NULL and keeps the original allocation
intact. REFTABLE_ALLOC_GROW overwrites both the original pointer and
the allocation count variable in that case, simultaneously leaking the
original allocation and misrepresenting the number of storable items.
parse_names() and reftable_buf_add() avoid leaking by restoring the
original pointer value on failure, but all other callers seem to be OK
with losing the old allocation. Add a new variant of the macro,
REFTABLE_ALLOC_GROW_OR_NULL, which plugs the leak and zeros the
allocation counter. Use it for those callers.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reftable backend adds check for upper limit of log's update_index.
* kn/reftable-writer-log-write-verify:
reftable/writer: ensure valid range for log's update_index
Isolates the reftable subsystem from the rest of Git's codebase by
using fewer pieces of Git's infrastructure.
* ps/reftable-detach:
reftable/system: provide thin wrapper for lockfile subsystem
reftable/stack: drop only use of `get_locked_file_path()`
reftable/system: provide thin wrapper for tempfile subsystem
reftable/stack: stop using `fsync_component()` directly
reftable/system: stop depending on "hash.h"
reftable: explicitly handle hash format IDs
reftable/system: move "dir.h" to its only user
Each reftable addition has an associated update_index. While writing
refs, the update_index is verified to be within the range of the
reftable writer, i.e. `writer.min_update_index <= ref.update_index` and
`writer.max_update_index => ref.update_index`.
The corresponding check for reflogs in `reftable_writer_add_log` is
however missing. Add a similar check, but only check for the upper
limit. This is because reflogs are treated a bit differently than refs.
Each reflog entry in reftable has an associated update_index and we also
allow expiring entries in the middle, which is done by simply writing a
new reflog entry with the same update_index. This means, writing reflog
entries with update_index lesser than the writer's update_index is an
expected scenario.
Add a new unit test to check for the limits and fix some of the existing
tests, which were setting arbitrary values for the update_index by
ensuring they stay within the now checked limits.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both `struct block_writer` and `struct reftable_writer` have a `buf`
member that is being reused to optimize the number of allocations.
Rename the variable to `scratch` to clarify its intend and provide a
comment explaining why it exists.
Suggested-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both `writer_add_record()` and `reftable_writer_add_ref()` get executed
for every single ref record we're adding to the reftable writer. And as
both functions use a local buffer to write data, the allocations we have
to do here add up during larger transactions.
Refactor the code to use a scratch buffer part of the `reftable_writer`
itself such that we can reuse it. This signifcantly reduces the number
of allocations during large transactions, e.g. when migrating refs from
the "files" backend to the "reftable" backend. Before this change:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 80,048 bytes in 49 blocks
total heap usage: 5,032,171 allocs, 5,032,122 frees, 418,792,092 bytes allocated
After this change:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 80,048 bytes in 49 blocks
total heap usage: 3,025,864 allocs, 3,025,815 frees, 372,746,291 bytes allocated
This also translate into a small speedup:
Benchmark 1: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~)
Time (mean ± σ): 827.2 ms ± 16.5 ms [User: 689.4 ms, System: 124.9 ms]
Range (min … max): 809.0 ms … 924.7 ms 50 runs
Benchmark 2: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD)
Time (mean ± σ): 813.6 ms ± 11.6 ms [User: 679.0 ms, System: 123.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 786.7 ms … 833.5 ms 50 runs
Summary
migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD) ran
1.02 ± 0.02 times faster than migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~)
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We include "hash.h" in "reftable/system.h" such that we can use hash
format IDs as well as the raw size of SHA1 and SHA256. As we are in the
process of converting the reftable library to become standalone we of
course cannot rely on those constants anymore.
Introduce a new `enum reftable_hash` to replace internal uses of the
hash format IDs and new constants that replace internal uses of the hash
size. Adapt the reftable backend to set up the correct hash function.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The hash format IDs are used for two different things across the
reftable codebase:
- They are used as a 32 bit unsigned integer when reading and writing
the header in order to identify the hash function.
- They are used internally to identify which hash function is in use.
When one only considers the second usecase one might think that one can
easily change the representation of those hash IDs. But because those
IDs end up in the reftable header and footer on disk it is important
that those never change.
Create separate constants `REFTABLE_FORMAT_ID_*` and use them in
contexts where we read or write reftable headers. This serves multiple
purposes:
- It allows us to more easily discern cases where we actually use
those constants for the on-disk format.
- It detangles us from the same constants that are defined in
libgit.a, which is another required step to convert the reftable
library to become standalone.
- It makes the next step easier where we stop using `GIT_*_FORMAT_ID`
constants in favor of a custom enum.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the reftable library such that we handle failures with the
new `reftable_buf` interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
The `reftable_record_key()` function cannot pass any errors to the
caller as it has a `void` return type. Adapt it and its callers such
that we can handle errors and start handling allocation failures.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Convert the reftable library to use the `reftable_buf` interface instead
of the `strbuf` interface. This is mostly a mechanical change via sed(1)
with some manual fixes where functions for `strbuf` and `reftable_buf`
differ. The converted code does not yet handle allocation failures. This
will be handled in subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
We're about to introduce our own `reftable_buf` type to replace
`strbuf`. Get rid of the seldomly-used `strbuf_addbuf()` function such
that we have to reimplement one less function.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
We have several calls to `FREE_AND_NULL()` in the reftable library,
which of course uses free(3P). As the reftable allocators are pluggable
we should rather call the reftable specific function, which is
`reftable_free()`.
Introduce a new macro `REFTABLE_FREE_AND_NULL()` and adapt the callsites
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Handle trivial allocation failures in the reftable library and its unit
tests.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The tree interfaces of the reftable library handle both insertion and
searching of tree nodes with a single function, where the behaviour is
altered between the two via an `insert` bit. This makes it quit awkward
to handle allocation failures because on inserting we'd have to check
for `NULL` pointers and return an error, whereas on searching entries we
don't have to handle it as an allocation error.
Split up concerns of this function into two separate functions, one for
inserting entries and one for searching entries. This makes it easy for
us to check for allocation errors as `tree_insert()` should never return
a `NULL` pointer now. Adapt callers accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Handle allocation failures in `block_writer_init()` and
`block_reader_init()`. This requires us to bubble up error codes into
`writer_reinit_block_writer()`. Adapt call sites accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Handle allocation failures in `reftable_new_writer()`. Adapt the
function to return an error code to return such failures. While at it,
rename it to match our code style as we have to touch up every callsite
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Handle allocation errors in `writer_index_hash()`. Adjust its only
caller in `reftable_writer_add_ref()` accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reftable code uses a lot of virtual function pointers, but many of
the concrete implementations do not need all of the parameters.
For the most part these are obviously fine to just mark as UNUSED (e.g.,
the empty_iterator functions unsurprisingly do not do anything). Here
are a few cases where I dug a little deeper (but still ended up just
marking them UNUSED):
- the iterator exclude_patterns is best-effort and optional (though it
would be nice to support in the long run as an optimization)
- ignoring the ref_store in many transaction functions is unexpected,
but works because the ref_transaction itself carries enough
information to do what we need.
- ignoring "err" for in some cases (e.g., transaction abort) is OK
because we do not return any errors. It is a little odd for
reftable_be_create_reflog(), though, since we do return errors
there. We should perhaps be creating string error messages at this
layer, but I've punted on that for now.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reftable format only supports block sizes up to 16MB. When the
writer is being passed a value bigger than that it simply calls
abort(3P), which isn't all that helpful due to the lack of a proper
error message.
Improve this by calling `BUG()` instead.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have a static variable in the reftable writer code that is merely
used to initialize the `last_key` of the writer. Convert the code to
instead use `strbuf_init()` and drop the variable.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We sometimes pass the refatble write options as value and sometimes as a
pointer. This is quite confusing and makes the reader wonder whether the
options get modified sometimes.
In fact, `reftable_new_writer()` does cause the caller-provided options
to get updated when some values aren't set up. This is quite unexpected,
but didn't cause any harm until now.
Adapt the code so that we do not modify the caller-provided values
anymore. While at it, refactor the code to code to consistently pass the
options as a constant pointer to clarify that the caller-provided opts
will not ever get modified.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reftable writer tracks the last key that it has written so that it
can properly compute the compressed prefix for the next record it is
about to write. This last key must be reset whenever we move on to write
the next block, which is done in `writer_reinit_block_writer()`. We do
this by calling `strbuf_release()` though, which needlessly deallocates
the underlying buffer.
Convert the code to use `strbuf_reset()` instead, which saves one
allocation per block we're about to write. This requires us to also
amend `reftable_writer_free()` to release the buffer's memory now as we
previously seemingly relied on `writer_reinit_block_writer()` to release
the memory for us. Releasing memory here is the right thing to do
anyway.
While at it, convert a callsite where we truncate the buffer by setting
its length to zero to instead use `strbuf_reset()`, too.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are two code paths which release memory of the reftable writer:
- `reftable_writer_close()` releases internal state after it has
written data.
- `reftable_writer_free()` releases the block that was written to and
the writer itself.
Both code paths free different parts of the writer, and consequently the
caller must make sure to call both. And while callers mostly do this
already, this falls apart when a write failure causes the caller to skip
calling `reftable_write_close()`.
Introduce a new function `reftable_writer_release()` that releases all
internal state and call it from both paths. Like this it is fine for the
caller to not call `reftable_writer_close()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Large parts of the reftable library do not conform to Git's typical code
style. Refactor `writer_flush_nonempty_block()` such that it conforms
better to it and add some documentation that explains some of its more
intricate behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Large parts of the reftable library do not conform to Git's typical code
style. Refactor `writer_add_record()` such that it conforms better to it
and add some documentation that explains some of its more intricate
behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up in various reftable code paths.
* ps/reftable-styles:
reftable/record: improve semantics when initializing records
reftable/merged: refactor initialization of iterators
reftable/merged: refactor seeking of records
reftable/stack: use `size_t` to track stack length
reftable/stack: use `size_t` to track stack slices during compaction
reftable/stack: index segments with `size_t`
reftable/stack: fix parameter validation when compacting range
reftable: introduce macros to allocate arrays
reftable: introduce macros to grow arrays
Similar to the preceding commit, let's carry over macros to allocate
arrays with `REFTABLE_ALLOC_ARRAY()` and `REFTABLE_CALLOC_ARRAY()`. This
requires us to change the signature of `reftable_calloc()`, which only
takes a single argument right now and thus puts the burden on the caller
to calculate the final array's size. This is a net improvement though as
it means that we can now provide proper overflow checks when multiplying
the array size with the member size.
Convert callsites of `reftable_calloc()` to the new signature and start
using the new macros where possible.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Throughout the reftable library we have many cases where we need to grow
arrays. In order to avoid too many reallocations, we roughly double the
capacity of the array on each iteration. The resulting code pattern is
duplicated across many sites.
We have similar patterns in our main codebase, which is why we have
eventually introduced an `ALLOC_GROW()` macro to abstract it away and
avoid some code duplication. We cannot easily reuse this macro here
though because `ALLOC_GROW()` uses `REALLOC_ARRAY()`, which in turn will
call realloc(3P) to grow the array. The reftable code is structured as a
library though (even if the boundaries are fuzzy), and one property this
brings with it is that it is possible to plug in your own allocators. So
instead of using realloc(3P), we need to use `reftable_realloc()` that
knows to use the user-provided implementation.
So let's introduce two new macros `REFTABLE_REALLOC_ARRAY()` and
`REFTABLE_ALLOC_GROW()` that mirror what we do in our main codebase,
with two modifications:
- They use `reftable_realloc()`, as explained above.
- They use a different growth factor of `2 * cap + 1` instead of `(cap
+ 16) * 3 / 2`.
The second change is because we know a bit more about the allocation
patterns in the reftable library. In most cases, we end up only having a
handful of items in the array and don't end up growing them. The initial
capacity that our normal growth factor uses (which is 24) would thus end
up over-allocating in a lot of code paths. This effect is measurable:
- Before change:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 671,983 bytes in 152 blocks
total heap usage: 3,843,446 allocs, 3,843,294 frees, 223,761,402 bytes allocated
- After change with a growth factor of `(2 * alloc + 1)`:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 671,983 bytes in 152 blocks
total heap usage: 3,843,446 allocs, 3,843,294 frees, 223,761,410 bytes allocated
- After change with a growth factor of `(alloc + 16)* 2 / 3`:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 671,983 bytes in 152 blocks
total heap usage: 3,833,673 allocs, 3,833,521 frees, 4,728,251,742 bytes allocated
While the total heap usage is roughly the same, we do end up allocating
significantly more bytes with our usual growth factor (in fact, roughly
21 times as many).
Convert the reftable library to use these new macros.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The way the index gets written and read is not trivial at all and
requires the reader to piece together a bunch of parts to figure out how
it works. Add some documentation to hopefully make this easier to
understand for the next reader.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When finishing a section we will potentially write an index that makes
it more efficient to look up relevant blocks. The index records written
will encode, for each block of the indexed section, what the offset of
that block is as well as the last key of that block. Thus, the reader
would iterate through the index records to find the first key larger or
equal to the wanted key and then use the encoded offset to look up the
desired block.
When there are a lot of blocks to index though we may end up writing
multiple index blocks, too. To not require a linear search across all
index blocks we instead end up writing a multi-level index. Instead of
referring to the block we are after, an index record may point to
another index block. The reader will then access the highest-level index
and follow down the chain of index blocks until it hits the sought-after
block.
It has been observed though that it is impossible to seek ref records of
the last ref block when using a multi-level index. While the multi-level
index exists and looks fine for most of the part, the highest-level
index was missing an index record pointing to the last block of the next
index. Thus, every additional level made more refs become unseekable at
the end of the ref section.
The root cause is that we are not flushing the last block of the current
level once done writing the level. Consequently, it wasn't recorded in
the blocks that need to be indexed by the next-higher level and thus we
forgot about it.
Fix this bug by flushing blocks after we have written all index records.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When finishing the current section some index records might be written
for the section to the table. The logic that adds these records to the
writer duplicates what we already have in `writer_add_record()`, making
this more complicated than it really has to be.
Simplify the code by using `writer_add_record()` instead. While at it,
drop the unneeded braces around a loop to make the code conform to our
code style better.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reftable writer is tracking the number of blocks it has to index via
the `index_len` variable. But while this variable is of type `size_t`,
some sites use an `int` to loop through the index entries.
Convert the code to consistently use `size_t`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While the reffiles backend honors configured fsync settings, the
reftable backend does not. Address this by fsyncing reftable files using
the write-or-die api's fsync_component() in two places: when we
add additional entries into the table, and when we close the reftable
writer.
This commits adds a flush function pointer as a new member of
reftable_writer because we are not sure that the first argument to the
*write function pointer always contains a file descriptor. In the case of
strbuf_add_void, the first argument is a buffer. This way, we can pass
in a corresponding flush function that knows how to flush depending on
which writer is being used.
This patch does not contain tests as they will need to wait for another
patch to start to exercise the reftable backend. At that point, the
tests will be added to observe that fsyncs are happening when the
reftable is in use.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each reftable may contain multiple types of blocks for refs, objects and
reflog records, where each of these may have an index that makes it more
efficient to find the records. It was observed that the index for log
records can become corrupted under certain circumstances, where the
first entry of the index points into the object index instead of to the
log records.
As it turns out, this corruption can occur whenever we write a log index
as well as at least one additional index. Writing records and their index
is basically a two-step process:
1. We write all blocks for the corresponding record. Each block that
gets written is added to a list of blocks to index.
2. Once all blocks were written we finish the section. If at least two
blocks have been added to the list of blocks to index then we will
now write the index for those blocks and flush it, as well.
When we have a very large number of blocks then we may decide to write a
multi-level index, which is why we also keep track of the list of the
index blocks in the same way as we previously kept track of the blocks
to index.
Now when we have finished writing all index blocks we clear the index
and flush the last block to disk. This is done in the wrong order though
because flushing the block to disk will re-add it to the list of blocks
to be indexed. The result is that the next section we are about to write
will have an entry in the list of blocks to index that points to the
last block of the preceding section's index, which will corrupt the log
index.
Fix this corruption by clearing the index after having written the last
block.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce and apply coccinelle rule to discourage an explicit
comparison between a pointer and NULL, and applies the clean-up to
the maintenance track.
* ep/maint-equals-null-cocci:
tree-wide: apply equals-null.cocci
tree-wide: apply equals-null.cocci
contrib/coccinnelle: add equals-null.cocci
Change the assignment syntax introduced in 66c0dabab5 (reftable: make
reftable_record a tagged union, 2022-01-20) to be portable to AIX xlc
v12.1:
avar@gcc111:[/home/avar]xlc -qversion
IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, V12.1 (5765-J02, 5725-C72)
Version: 12.01.0000.0000
The error emitted before this was e.g.:
"reftable/generic.c", line 133.26: 1506-196 (S) Initialization
between types "char*" and "struct reftable_ref_record" is not
allowed.
The syntax in the pre-image is supported by e.g. xlc 13.01 on a newer
AIX version:
avar@gcc119:[/home/avar]xlc -qversion
IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, V13.1.3 (5725-C72, 5765-J07)
Version: 13.01.0003.0006
But as we've otherwise supported this compiler let's not break it
entirely if it's easy to work around it.
Suggested-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function is part of the reftable API, so it should use the
reftable_ prefix
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When writing the same hash many times, we might decide to use a
length-1 object ID prefix for the ObjectID => ref table, which is out
of spec.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The public interface (reftable_writer) already ensures that keys are
written in strictly increasing order, and an empty key by definition
fails this check.
However, by also enforcing this at the block layer, it is easier to
verify that records (which are written into blocks) never have to
consider the possibility of empty keys.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Problems identified by Coverity in the reftable code have been
corrected.
* hn/reftable-coverity-fixes:
reftable: add print functions to the record types
reftable: make reftable_record a tagged union
reftable: remove outdated file reftable.c
reftable: implement record equality generically
reftable: make reftable-record.h function signatures const correct
reftable: handle null refnames in reftable_ref_record_equal
reftable: drop stray printf in readwrite_test
reftable: order unittests by complexity
reftable: all xxx_free() functions accept NULL arguments
reftable: fix resource warning
reftable: ignore remove() return value in stack_test.c
reftable: check reftable_stack_auto_compact() return value
reftable: fix resource leak blocksource.c
reftable: fix resource leak in block.c error path
reftable: fix OOB stack write in print functions
This reduces the amount of glue code, because we don't need a void
pointer or vtable within the structure.
The only snag is that reftable_index_record contain a strbuf, so it
cannot be zero-initialized. To address this, use reftable_new_record()
to return fresh instance, given a record type. Since
reftable_new_record() doesn't cause heap allocation anymore, it should
be balanced with reftable_record_release() rather than
reftable_record_destroy().
Thanks to Peff for the suggestion.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This fixes NULL derefs in error paths. Spotted by Coverity.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
reflog entries have unbounded size. In theory, each log ('g') block in reftable
can have an arbitrary size, so the format allows for arbitrarily sized reflog
messages. However, in the implementation, we are not scaling the log blocks up
with the message, and writing a large message fails.
This triggers a failure for reftable in t7006-pager.sh.
Until this is fixed more structurally, report an error from within the reftable
library for easier debugging.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
