As refdb and odb backends can be allocated by client code, libgit2
can’t know whether an alternative memory allocator was used, and thus
should not try to call `git__free` on those objects.
Instead, odb and refdb backend implementations must always provide
their own `free` functions to ensure memory gets freed correctly.
Restricting files to size_t is a silly limitation. The loose backend
writes to a file directly, so there is no issue in using 63 bits for the
size.
We still assume that the header is going to fit in 64 bytes, which does
mean quite a bit smaller files due to the run-length encoding, but it's
still a much larger size than you would want Git to handle.
When given an ODB from which to read objects, the indexer will attempt
to inject the missing bases at the end of the pack and update the
header and trailer to reflect the new contents.
Previously, `git_object_read()`, `git_object_read_prefix()` and
`git_object_exists()` were implementing an auto refresh logic. When the
expected object couldn't be found in any backend, a call to
`git_odb_refresh()` was triggered and the lookup was once again performed
against all backends.
This commit removes this auto-refresh logic from the odb layer and pushes
it down into the pack-backend (as it's the only one currently exposing
a `refresh()` endpoint).
Clarify the role of each function and in particular mention that there
is no need for the backend or stream to worry about the object's id,
as it will be given when `finalize_write` is called.
The frontend is in charge of calculating the id of the objects. Thus
the backends should treat it as a read-only value. The positioning in
the function signature made it seem as though it was an output
parameter.
Make the id const and move it from the front to behind the subject
(backend or stream).
This moves some of the odb_backend stuff that is related to the
internals of an odb_backend implementation into include/git2/sys.
Some of the stuff related to streaming I left in include/git2
because it seemed like it would be reasonably needed by a normal
user who wanted to stream objects into and out of the ODB.
Also, I added APIs for traversing the list of backends so that
some of the tests would not need to access ODB internals.
