reftable: remove name checks

In the preceding commit we have disabled name checks in the "reftable"
backend. These checks were responsible for verifying multiple things
when writing records to the reftable stack:

  - Detecting file/directory conflicts. Starting with the preceding
    commits this is now handled by the reftable backend itself via
    `refs_verify_refname_available()`.

  - Validating refnames. This is handled by `check_refname_format()` in
    the generic ref transacton layer.

The code in the reftable library is thus not used anymore and likely to
bitrot over time. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: pks-t

Makefile

@@ -2655,7 +2655,6 @@ REFTABLE_OBJS += reftable/merged.o
 REFTABLE_OBJS += reftable/pq.o
 REFTABLE_OBJS += reftable/reader.o
 REFTABLE_OBJS += reftable/record.o
-REFTABLE_OBJS += reftable/refname.o
 REFTABLE_OBJS += reftable/generic.o
 REFTABLE_OBJS += reftable/stack.o
 REFTABLE_OBJS += reftable/tree.o
@@ -2668,7 +2667,6 @@ REFTABLE_TEST_OBJS += reftable/merged_test.o
 REFTABLE_TEST_OBJS += reftable/pq_test.o
 REFTABLE_TEST_OBJS += reftable/record_test.o
 REFTABLE_TEST_OBJS += reftable/readwrite_test.o
-REFTABLE_TEST_OBJS += reftable/refname_test.o
 REFTABLE_TEST_OBJS += reftable/stack_test.o
 REFTABLE_TEST_OBJS += reftable/test_framework.o
 REFTABLE_TEST_OBJS += reftable/tree_test.o

refs/reftable-backend.c

@@ -247,11 +247,6 @@ static struct ref_store *reftable_be_init(struct repository *repo,
 	refs->write_options.block_size = 4096;
 	refs->write_options.hash_id = repo->hash_algo->format_id;
 	refs->write_options.default_permissions = calc_shared_perm(0666 & ~mask);
-	/*
-	 * We verify names via `refs_verify_refname_available()`, so there is
-	 * no need to do the same checks in the reftable library again.
-	 */
-	refs->write_options.skip_name_check = 1;
 
 	/*
 	 * Set up the main reftable stack that is hosted in GIT_COMMON_DIR.

reftable/error.c

@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ const char *reftable_error_str(int err)
 		return "misuse of the reftable API";
 	case REFTABLE_ZLIB_ERROR:
 		return "zlib failure";
-	case REFTABLE_NAME_CONFLICT:
-		return "file/directory conflict";
 	case REFTABLE_EMPTY_TABLE_ERROR:
 		return "wrote empty table";
 	case REFTABLE_REFNAME_ERROR:

reftable/refname.c

@@ -48,9 +48,6 @@ enum reftable_error {
 	/* Wrote a table without blocks. */
 	REFTABLE_EMPTY_TABLE_ERROR = -8,
 
-	/* Dir/file conflict. */
-	REFTABLE_NAME_CONFLICT = -9,
-
 	/* Invalid ref name. */
 	REFTABLE_REFNAME_ERROR = -10,
 

reftable/refname.h

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ int block_test_main(int argc, const char **argv);
 int merged_test_main(int argc, const char **argv);
 int pq_test_main(int argc, const char **argv);
 int record_test_main(int argc, const char **argv);
-int refname_test_main(int argc, const char **argv);
 int readwrite_test_main(int argc, const char **argv);
 int stack_test_main(int argc, const char **argv);
 int tree_test_main(int argc, const char **argv);