Re: [PATCH 5/8] pathspec: convert strip_submodule_slash to take an index

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 10, 2017, 05:55 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq60h9xnkp.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170509191805.176266-6-bmwill@google.com>

Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
> ---
>  pathspec.c | 9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

This conversion is not wrong per-se, but I wonder if there is a practical situation where we want to validate a pathspec element against an in-core index that does not represent the index currently in effect (aka "the_index"). I do not think of any offhand myself.

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