Re: [PATCH 02/17] dir: convert create_simplify to use the pathspec struct interface

> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> wrote:
> > On 12/07, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:51 AM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> wrote:
> >> > Convert 'create_simplify()' to use the pathspec struct interface from
> >> > using the '_raw' entry in the pathspec.
> >>
> >> It would be even better to kill this create_simplify() and let
> >> simplify_away() handle struct pathspec directly.
> >>
> >> There is a bug in this code, that might have been found if we
> >> simpify_away() handled pathspec directly: the memcmp() in
> >> simplify_away() will not play well with :(icase) magic. My bad. If
> >> :(icase) is used, the easiest/safe way is simplify nothing. Later on
> >> maybe we can teach simplify_away() to do strncasecmp instead. We could
> >> ignore exclude patterns there too (although not excluding is not a
> >> bug).
> >
> > So are you implying that the simplify struct needs to be killed?  That
> > way the pathspec struct itself is being passed around instead?
> 
> Yes. simplify struct was a thing when pathspec was an array of char *.
> At this point I think it can retire (when we have time to retire it)