Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] reftable: stop using `strbuf_addf()`

> > Part of me wishes that we didn't have to write our own `reftable_buf` in
> > the first place. Could we use `strbuf` as-is and expose it through a
> > generic reftable-specific interface that users of reftable fill in with
> > a vtable or something?
>
> I tried that, and it felt way worse. The amount of code you have to
> write is roughly in the same ballpark, you don't have pluggable
> allocators, you don't have allocation error handling and every consumer
> would have to implement their own type.
>
> So overall it's only losses from my point of view.