The current version of the commit creation and amend function are unsafe
to use when passing the update_ref parameter, as they do not check that
the reference at the moment of update points to what the user expects.

Make sure that we're moving history forward when we ask the library to
update the reference for us by checking that the first parent of the new
commit is the current value of the reference. We also make sure that the
ref we're updating hasn't moved between the read and the write.

Similarly, when amending a commit, make sure that the current tip of the
branch is the commit we're amending.

Make the build CMake 2.6 compatible

Keep the deflate buffer from ballooning up

Make sure we set the output parameter to a value.

When deflating data, we might need to grow the buffer. Currently we
add a guess on top of the currently-allocated buffer size.

When we re-use the buffer, it already has some memory allocated; adding
to that means that we always grow the buffer regardless of how much we
need to use.

Instead, increase on top of the currently-used size. This still leaves
us with the allocated size of the largest object we compress, but it's a
minor pain compared to unbounded growth.

This fixes #2285.

Plug some leaks