Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Inspect reflog data programmatically in more tests

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Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>

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Dec 2, 2021, 16:11 UTC

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> I was aiming more for the lack of premature optimization there,
> i.e. instead of byte-twiddling things by injecting \0s we could just
> have char */size_t offsets (as noted elsewhere), which would also nicely
> allow binary storage formats, if those formats happen to have an
> embedded string. Is that true of reftable?

reftable zlib compresses the reflog, so you can't mmap strings from the storage.

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