On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 1:56 PM Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > This session was led by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (on behalf of Han-Wen > Nienhuys, the driving force behind the reftable patches, who did not > attend the Summit). Supporting cast: Jonathan "jrnieder" Nieder, Johannes > "Dscho" Schindelin, Philip Oakley, Jeff "Peff" King, and Junio Hamano. > Thanks Ævar for doing this. I wanted to be there, but I took a much needed 2 week computer-less vacation . >.. > 9. Reftable has a set of files that go together. May want debugging tool > to dump the content of a binary reftable file. But we can > incrementally add those The patch series includes a test-tool for dumping both individual tables and a stack of tables. It's not super-polished, but it gets the job done. $ touch a ; ~/vc/git/git add a; ~/vc/git/git commit -mx ... $ ~/vc/git/bin-wrappers/test-tool dump-reftable -t .git/reftable/0x000000000002-0x000000000002-327b23c6.ref ref{refs/heads/main(2) val 1 ab21c324503544acca84eb55f5ee7dce24b23e15} log{HEAD(2) Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxxx> 1635188263 0200 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 => ab21c324503544acca84eb55f5ee7dce24b23e15 commit (initial): x } log{refs/heads/main(2) Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxxx> 1635188263 0200 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 => ab21c324503544acca84eb55f5ee7dce24b23e15 commit (initial): x } -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - Google Munich I work 80%. Don't expect answers from me on Fridays. -- Google Germany GmbH, Erika-Mann-Strasse 33, 80636 Munich Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado