Re: [RFC/PATCH] Making ce_path_match() more useful by accepting globs

> Currently, these do not work:
> 
>    git diff-files 't/*.sh'
>    git diff-index HEAD 'xdiff/*.c'
>    git update-index -g 'Documentation/howto/*.txt'
> 
> This is because ce_path_match(), the underlying function that is used to
> see if a cache entry matches the set of pathspecs, only understands
> leading directory match.
> 
> This teaches ce_path_match() to use the match_pathspec() used in
> git-ls-files, which knows about glob patterns.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
> 
>  [SORRY FOR A RESEND -- I screwed up the To: field of the previous message]
> 
>  * Having two different behaviours of pathspec matching has been
>    bothering me for quite some time.  The changes here look trivially
>    correct and the result passes all the tests, but this is quite close
>    to the core part of the system, and would benefit greatly from extra
>    set of eyes.