[PATCH 0/6] wildmatch part 2

["Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Perhaps the wildmatch code may not be what we want X-<.

When I imported wildmatch I was hoping to make minimum changes to it.
But wildmatch is probably the only practical way to support "**" even
if we later need to change it the way we want. Other options are base
our work on top of compat/fnmatch.c, which is an #ifdef spaghetti
mess, or write a new fnmatch()-compatible function. Both unattractive
to me.

Anyway, this is on top of nd/wildmatch, which makes "ab**cd" match
full pathname.

attr patches port .gitignore optimizations over. In long term, we
should probably have a shared matching implementation instead. I tried
that road once and failed so I won't attempt again any time soon. If
we drop wildmatch, I can split these attr patches out as a separate
series. It's a good thing to do anyway.

The last patch just reflects that current "**" is not exactly what we
want. I'm not sure if I could look into wildmatch.c and change it.
Anybody is welcome to step up, of course.

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (6):
  attr: remove the union in struct match_attr
  attr: avoid strlen() on every match
  attr: avoid searching for basename on every match
  attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignore
  gitignore: do not do basename match with patterns that have '**'
  t3001: note about expected "**" behavior

 Documentation/gitignore.txt        |  10 ++--
 attr.c                             | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 dir.c                              |   6 +--
 dir.h                              |   2 +
 t/t0003-attributes.sh              |  16 ++++++
 t/t3001-ls-files-others-exclude.sh |  18 +++++++
 6 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

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