From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:15:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] archive: fix archive generation for empty trees
Message-ID: <20120308071559.GF7643@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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