Re: [PATCH 3/3] builtin-add: simplify (and increase accuracy of) exclude handling

[Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote Mon, Jun 11, 2007:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 05:01:23PM +0200, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> > I think you could even get rid of has_ignored with something like this.
> 
> Nope, I had originally wanted to do that, but the dir_struct.ignored
> list contains _all_ ignored items, not just those that were originally
> in the pathspec. The prune_ignored call sets uninteresting ones to
> NULL.  That function could compact the list and re-set ignored_nr, but
> it doesn't currently do so.

Ah, I see.

> An even more elegant solution would be for read_directory to mark
> whether an ignored file comes from a pathspec, or was found through
> recursion. That would be more efficient, and it would remove the
> prune_ignored thing, which is IMHO a little hack-ish.
> 
> I don't have time to work on it now, but I might look at it more tonight
> or tomorrow (but please, if you are interested, take a crack at it).

Yes, I think it might be nice for me to do if you don't mind. I would
like some more experience with the git code. Maybe even redo the whole
patch series to also fix the concerns about the alloc_grow macro.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca