reflog entries have unbounded size. In theory, each log ('g') block in reftable
can have an arbitrary size, so the format allows for arbitrarily sized reflog
messages. However, in the implementation, we are not scaling the log blocks up
with the message, and writing a large message fails.
This triggers a failure for reftable in t7006-pager.sh.
Until this is fixed more structurally, report an error from within the reftable
library for easier debugging.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reftable/ directory is structured as a library, so it cannot
crash on misuse. Instead, it returns an error code.
In addition to signaling errors, the error code can be used to signal
conditions from lower levels of the library to be handled by higher
levels of the library. For example, in a transaction we might
legitimately write an empty reftable file, but in that case, we want to
shortcut the transaction.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
