Re: [PATCH RFC] Convert ce_path_match() use to match_pathspec()

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

2009/5/26 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> For some reasons diff code did not get converted to use
>> match_pathspec(). So diff commands do not understand wildcards.
>
> ce_path_match() is not just about diffs; there may be places that do not
> expect pathspecs to match cruft with globs.  Have you checked all the
> callsites and they are Ok with globbing?

I'm pretty sure except preload-index. I have checked again, all
read_cache_preload() callsites seem to prefer files and leading path
over globbing.

> I think using glob in diff-files should be Ok, but that would make it
> inconsistent with diff-tree (and possibly diff-index but I didn't check).
> The correct operation of diff-tree (and path pruning in "git log" family)
> heavily relies on an early-exit optimization not to recurse into a
> directory when we can detect that none of the paths in that directory will
> ever match any of the given pathspecs, and this is done based on the
> non-globbing (iow "leading path") semantics; you need to be extra careful
> about this.

Now I know the reason. Thanks.
-- 
Duy