Re: [PATCH 2/4] add -u: get rid of "treewideupdate" configuration

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> By the way, the field in "struct pathspec_item" would need to be updated,
> and the matcher would need to be changed, so that each item knows up to
> which part of the "match" string came from the prefix (and remainder is a
> user supplied pattern).  Then from a subdirectory a?a/bbb,
>
>  - "c" should parse into prefix "a?a/bbb/" plus pattern "c"
>
>  - ":../c" should become prefix "a?a/" plus pattern "c"
>
> and the matcher should match the prefix part _literally_ without
> fnmatch(3), while using whatever magic (e.g. use_wildcard) to match the
> pattern part.  I think we currently match the whole thing with fnmatch(3),
> which in practice may be OK only because not many people use glob
> characters in their directory names, but what the current matcher does
> logically is wrong.

OK. Let's add nomagic_len (or plain_len) to pathspec_item for that. I
was thinking of noglob_len but changed my mind because the same can
also be applied for icase magic. We don't want to do strcasecmp on
prefix.

> Of course, both of the above are tasks after 1.7.5 ships, but I thought I
> should mention them now, as you seem to be already thinking about the
> future.
-- 
Duy