Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] ls-files: add pathspec matching for submodules

> There is an interesting observation around this code.  Note that it
> is just something to keep in mind, even though I think we are in no
> position to solve this within the scope of this series, or in fact I
> am not sure if there is anything to "fix".
>
> The expectation here is that the leading part of pathspec elements
> contain path components above and outside the current working tree,
> e.g. in a superproject with a submodule at "sub/", the end-user may
> have said from the top of the superproject
>
> A saving grace is that "s*b/file" in this case is what the end-user
> is giving us, not something we internally generated.  So we can
> simply blame the end user, saying "what --recurse-submodules does is
> to (conceptually) flatten the indices of submodules into the index
> of the superproject and show the entries that match your pathspec.
> Because you gave us 's*b/file', which does match 's*b/oob/file',
> that is what you get."
>
> ;-)