From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Brodie Rao" <brodie@sf.io>,
"René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] archive: fix archive generation for empty trees
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 02:15:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120308071559.GF7643@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vpqcnfvhs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:38:07PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > ... However, prefix_pathspec does a lot of magic parsing;
> > it's unclear to me whether this is all in support of properly
> > adding the prefix, or if its side effects are important.
>
> These "magic" are for things like :(root)/path that will explicitly
> refuse the prefix when run from a subdirectory.
Yeah, that was my impression. In that case, I would think we could get
rid of the get_pathspec call entirely, as it is purely about fixing-up
prefixes, and we know that we have none.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-08 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-08 0:09 [PATCH] archive: fix archive generation for empty trees Brodie Rao
2012-03-08 5:55 ` Jeff King
2012-03-08 6:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-08 7:15 ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-03-08 17:46 ` René Scharfe
2012-03-09 0:06 ` Brodie Rao
2012-03-09 7:30 ` René Scharfe
2012-03-08 17:46 ` René Scharfe
2012-03-09 0:08 ` Brodie Rao
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