This is where portable git stores the global configuration which we can
use to adhere to it even though git isn't quite installed on the system.

This makes the API for commiting or discarding changes the same as for
references.

This lock/unlock pair allows for the cller to lock a configuration file
to avoid concurrent operations.

It also allows for a transactional approach to updating a configuration
file. If multiple updates must be made atomically, they can be done
while the config is locked.

This changes the get_entry() method to return a refcounted version of
the config entry, which you have to free when you're done.

This allows us to avoid freeing the memory in which the entry is stored
on a refresh, which may happen at any time for a live config.

For this reason, get_string() has been forbidden on live configs and a
new function get_string_buf() has been added, which stores the string in
a git_buf which the user then owns.

The functions which parse the string value takea advantage of the
borrowing to parse safely and then release the entry.

This makes them show up in the reference, even if the text itself isn't
the most descriptive.

These have been found with

    grep -Przon '\n\ntypedef struct.*?\{' -- include
    grep -Przon '\n\ntypedef enum.*?\{' -- include