Re: reftable & jgit compatibility

> On 3 Apr 2024, at 11:36, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks again for taking up this work.
> 
> As I'm browsing over your patches (and realizing how much of the
> arcana of the format I've forgotten), I hope that I did not make any
> errors in implementing the spec (and/or that Shawn didn't deviate his
> implementation from the spec). It would be extremely unfortunate if an
> incompatibility between CGit and JGit were discovered after it is
> released.
> 
> So far I have always been able to read JGit reftables using the C / Go
> code, but it would be good to systematically test this, ie. generate a
> bunch of tables using JGit and check that passing them through the C
> code (read & write) leaves them unchanged. Or perhaps check in some
> tables as golden reference data.
> Josh can probably connect you to the right folks to help with this on
> the JGit side.