Re: Relative ls-files

> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> (off topic?)
>>
>> "ls-tree -r" does not understand wildcards. Maybe it should not, but I
>> think read_tree_recursive() should use tree_entry_interesting(). The
>> function it uses for matching, match_tree_entry, looks like another
>> variant of t_e_interesting.
>
> I thought that you already did that within the scope of your earlier
> topic.
>
> "ls-tree" is quite a low-level plumbing, and until we absolutely know that
> all the old scripts people wrote relying on its original behaviour are
> extinct, we shouldn't touch it without a reasonable breakage protection.
>
> It is Ok to give it a command line option to make it in line with other
> pathspec users, namely, that causes the command to missing pathspec should
> automatically mean the whole tree and to honor globs.  No existing script
> would be using that option, so that is a safe thing to do.