Re: Relative ls-files

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be more sensible to add a bit ("is this a glob or are we
>> expected to match it literally") to each element in the pathspec array,
>> and pass a pathspec whose elements are all marked as "literal" down from
>> ls-tree?
>>
>> The internal matcher (and traversal optimizer) would need to become aware
>> of "not a glob" match (and possibly different kinds of matches like "**/"
>> support) sooner or later, and when that happens you would need something
>> like the above on the caller side in ls-tree.
>
> I think it's possible even now. fnmatch() is only used if
> pathspec_item.has_wildcard is true. So ls-tree.c only needs to clear
> this field for all pathspecs and they will be treated literally. Let
> me try..