Re: [PATCH 00/10] reftable: stop using `struct strbuf`

> Hi,
>
> this is the second patch series on my quest to make the reftable library
> become a standalone library again that can be used by libgit2 without
> pulling in all kinds of dependencies from the Git codebase. This part
> makes us lose the dependency on `struct strbuf`, which is done due to
> three reasons:
>
>   - To make us independent of libgit.a.
>
>   - To ensure that we use the pluggable allocators that users can set up
>     via `reftable_set_alloc()`.
>
>   - To make it possible to handle memory allocation failures.
>
> While this leads to some duplication, we're only talking about ~70 lines
> of code.
>