From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 05:27:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] convert pathspec.c to take an index parameter
Message-ID: <xmqqh90q7ige.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170511220427.192627-1-bmwill@google.com>

Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> writes:

> The main difference in v2 is that instead of piping through an index_state
> struct into parse_pathspec, I ripped out the logic that needed to access the
> index and either removed it completely if it wasn't needed anymore (stripping
> submodule slash) or factored it out into its own function which can be called
> after initializing a pathspec object (dying if a path descends into a
> submodule).
>
> Brandon Williams (6):
>   pathspec: provide a more descriptive die message
>   submodule: add die_in_unpopulated_submodule function
>   pathspec: remove PATHSPEC_STRIP_SUBMODULE_SLASH_EXPENSIVE flag
>   ls-files: prevent prune_cache from overeagerly pruning submodules
>   pathspec: remove PATHSPEC_STRIP_SUBMODULE_SLASH_CHEAP
>   pathspec: convert find_pathspecs_matching_against_index to take an
>     index

This was (perhaps surprisingly) quite a pleasant read, even compared
to the other approach ;-).