refs: Partial rewrite for read-only refs

This new version of the references code is significantly faster and
hopefully easier to read.

External API stays the same. A new method `git_reference_reload()` has
been added to force updating a memory reference from disk. In-memory
references are no longer updated automagically -- this was killing us.

If a reference is deleted externally and the user doesn't reload the
memory object, nothing critical happens: any functions using that
reference should fail gracefully (e.g. deletion, renaming, and so on).

All generated references from the API are read only and must be free'd
by the user. There is no reference counting and no traces of generated
references are kept in the library.

There is no longer an internal representation for references. There is
only one reference struct `git_reference`, and symbolic/oid targets are
stored inside an union.

Packfile references are stored using an optimized struct with flex array
for reference names. This should significantly reduce the memory cost of
loading the packfile from disk.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/refs.h b/src/refs.h
index db0f5c4df..02e336e54 100644
--- a/src/refs.h
+++ b/src/refs.h
@@ -33,19 +33,23 @@
 #define GIT_REFNAME_MAX 1024
 
 struct git_reference {
+	unsigned int flags;
 	git_repository *owner;
 	char *name;
+	time_t mtime;
+
+	union {
+		git_oid oid;
+		char *symbolic;
+	} target;
 };
 
 typedef struct {
 	git_hashtable *packfile;
-	git_hashtable *loose_cache;
 	time_t packfile_time;
 } git_refcache;
 
-
 void git_repository__refcache_free(git_refcache *refs);
-int git_repository__refcache_init(git_refcache *refs);
 
 int git_reference__normalize_name(char *buffer_out, size_t out_size, const char *name);
 int git_reference__normalize_name_oid(char *buffer_out, size_t out_size, const char *name);