Re: [PATCH 10/21] tree_entry_interesting(): fix depth limit with overlapping pathspecs

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 17, 2010, 10:05 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=4vnitj-U5M+V_ALVpAk0ncMG=09aAEqA=KD41@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/12/17 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

> One thing I am not clear is what it means to limit the recursion level
> when you have wildcards.

Recursion level does not affect wildcards at all. That was original design, a91f453 (grep: Add --max-depth option. - 2009-07-22). I think current git-grep still follows that.

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> [Footnote]
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> *1* In addition, perhaps you may later want to introduce some "negative"
> match operators to pathspecs; while I am not particularly fond of that
> direction at this moment, I would like to leave the door open for that
> possibility, in case it turns out to be a good thing to have.

It's a essential thing for narrow clone, otherwise I can't widen a narrow clone. But narrow clone must prove it's a good thing to have first..

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Duy