Re: [PATCH 0/4] Re-fix get_pathspec()

> After 1.5.4, we improved get_pathspec() to allow absolute paths, because
> people wanted to cut&paste from file managers and such, so that you can
> feed absolute paths to "git add" and friends.
> 
> However, the paths still must be inside work tree, so there must be a 
> way to ensure that.  d089eba (setup: sanitize absolute and funny paths 
> in get_pathspec()) botched the interface, by making the check the 
> responsibility of the callers, while keeping the interface to the 
> function intact, which meant that the callers needed to count returned 
> pathspecs and compared it with the number of paths fed to the function.
> 
> This miniseries cleans up the interface by making get_pathspec() to die
> again.