Code restructuring around the "refs" area to prepare for pluggable
refs backends.
* dt/pre-refs-backend: (24 commits)
refs: on symref reflog expire, lock symref not referrent
refs: move resolve_ref_unsafe into common code
show_head_ref(): check the result of resolve_ref_namespace()
check_aliased_update(): check that dst_name is non-NULL
checkout_paths(): remove unneeded flag variable
cmd_merge(): remove unneeded flag variable
fsck_head_link(): remove unneeded flag variable
read_raw_ref(): change flags parameter to unsigned int
files-backend: inline resolve_ref_1() into resolve_ref_unsafe()
read_raw_ref(): manage own scratch space
files-backend: break out ref reading
resolve_ref_1(): eliminate local variable "bad_name"
resolve_ref_1(): reorder code
resolve_ref_1(): eliminate local variable
resolve_ref_unsafe(): ensure flags is always set
resolve_ref_unsafe(): use for loop to count up to MAXDEPTH
resolve_missing_loose_ref(): simplify semantics
t1430: improve test coverage of deletion of badly-named refs
t1430: test for-each-ref in the presence of badly-named refs
t1430: don't rely on symbolic-ref for creating broken symrefs
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