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Generate test resources for reftables. These resources are basically the
Git repositories we already have, but converted to use the "reftable"
format. For most of the part, this conversion is done by executing `git
refs migrate`.
A couple notes:
- This require a recent Git upstream version with not-yet-upstreamed
patches due to a bug in `git refs migrate` with reflogs.
- The migration command does not yet support repositories with
worktrees. Those were converted by first removing the worktrees,
migrating the refs and then recreating them.
- The HEAD_TRACKER reference in testrepo.git is not recognized as a
root ref and is thus not automatically migrated.
- testrepo.git has an empty reflog for refs/heads/with-empty-log that
does not get migrated.
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