Re: Implementing reftable in Git

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Christian Couder
<christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I might start working on implementing reftable in Git soon.

Adding Michael Haggerty who did lots of work on ref stuff. He probably
can give a few suggestions.

You probably should also look at the last attempt to add lmdb as a new
ref backend. I'm not sure why it's still not in, maybe it wasn't the
right time (e.g. infrastructure was not ready).

> During the last Git Merge conference last March Stefan talked about
> reftable. In Alex Vandiver's notes [1] it is asked that people
> announce it on the list when they start working on it, and it appears
> that there is a reference implementation in JGit.
>
> Looking it up, there is indeed some documentation [2], code [3], tests
> [4] and other related stuff [5] in the JGit repo. It looks like the
> JGit repo and the reftable code there are licensed under the Eclipse
> Distribution License - v 1.0 [7] which is very similar to the 3-Clause
> BSD License also called Modified BSD License which is GPL compatible
> according to gnu.org [9]. So from a quick look it appears that I
> should be able to port the JGit to Git if I just keep the copyright
> and license header comments in all the related files.
>
> So I think the most straightforward and compatible way to do it would
> be to port the JGit implementation.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion or comment about this.
>
> Reftable was first described by Shawn and then discussed last July on
> the list [6].
>
> My work on this would be sponsored by Booking.com.
>
> Thanks,
> Christian.
>
> [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.20.1803091557510.23109@alexmv-linux/
>
> [2] https://github.com/eclipse/jgit/blob/master/Documentation/technical/reftable.md
>
> [3] https://github.com/eclipse/jgit/tree/master/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable
>
> [4] https://github.com/eclipse/jgit/tree/master/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/reftable
>
> [5] https://github.com/eclipse/jgit/tree/master/org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/src/org/eclipse/jgit/pgm/debug
>
> [6] https://public-inbox.org/git/CAJo=hJtyof=HRy=2sLP0ng0uZ4=S-DpZ5dR1aF+VHVETKG20OQ@mail.gmail.com/
>
> [7] http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php
>
> [8] https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
>
> [9] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#ModifiedBSD
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Duy