Re: Very limited pathspec wildcards..

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Aug 3, 2005, 19:38 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508031234280.3258@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7voe8ec08j.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> Wouldn't something like this work equally well?

Nope, for several reasons:
 - it's _horribly_ inefficient (ie it traverses directories that it 
   doesn't need to)
 - it shows all the changeset comments, regardless of whether they are 
   releant or not. It just removes the diffs.

Try it out.

Junio, name-based filters _have_ to be done early. This is why "diffcore-pathspec" isn't used any more - it's _much_ too inefficient to do it later.

		Linus