From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:17:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/5] refs: add match_pattern()
Message-ID: <7v62ey8ktp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120222234733.GD2410@tgrennan-laptop>

Tom Grennan <tmgrennan@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, I tried to minimize change but the conversion of argv's to
> string_list's won't add that much.

How about _not_ using string_list?  After all, string_list is not just a
collection of strings, but is a table to hold strings with attributes.  I
thought argv_array is more appropriate abstraction for the purpose of your
patch.
>>	ref_match_pattern("refs/heads/master",
>>        		  ["maste?", NULL],
>>                          ["refs/heads/", NULL],
>>                          (REF_MATCH_FNM_PATH|REF_MATCH_LEADING));
>>
>>Note that the above "ref_match_pattern()" gives the same "flags" for the
>>call to match_one() for elements in both positive and negative array and
>>it is very deliberate.  See review comment to [3/5] for the reasoning.
>
> OK, I think that I understand, but please confirm, you'd expect no output in
> the above example, right?

"maste?" would match with FNM_PATHNAME with "refs/heads/master" but
the negative "refs/heads/" matches with it, so yeah, I expect that the
function would return false.