Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2025, #06; Fri, 21)

> * ps/reftable-sans-compat-util (2025-02-18) 18 commits
>  - Makefile: skip reftable library for Coccinelle
>  - reftable: decouple from Git codebase by pulling in "compat/posix.h"
>  - git-compat-util.h: split out POSIX-emulating bits
>  - compat/mingw: split out POSIX-related bits
>  - reftable/basics: introduce `REFTABLE_UNUSED` annotation
>  - reftable/basics: stop using `SWAP()` macro
>  - reftable/stack: stop using `sleep_millisec()`
>  - reftable/system: introduce `reftable_rand()`
>  - reftable/reader: stop using `ARRAY_SIZE()` macro
>  - reftable/basics: provide wrappers for big endian conversion
>  - reftable/basics: stop using `st_mult()` in array allocators
>  - reftable: stop using `BUG()` in trivial cases
>  - reftable/record: don't `BUG()` in `reftable_record_cmp()`
>  - reftable/record: stop using `BUG()` in `reftable_record_init()`
>  - reftable/record: stop using `COPY_ARRAY()`
>  - reftable/blocksource: stop using `xmmap()`
>  - reftable/stack: stop using `write_in_full()`
>  - reftable/stack: stop using `read_in_full()`
>  (this branch is used by ps/reftable-windows-unlink-fix.)
> 
>  Make the code in reftable library less reliant on the service
>  routines it used to borrow from Git proper, to make it easier to
>  use by external users of the library.
> 
>  Waiting for Acks, especially for Windows bits?
>  source: <20250218-pks-reftable-drop-git-compat-util-v6-0-8c1f39fb4c02@pks.im>