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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 12, 2017, 00:54 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqshka99nt.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170511173605.GB83655@google.com>

Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> writes:

> ...  Note that if we go with the route to not pass
> in an index now, it doesn't necessarily mean that down the line we won't
> have to pass a 'repository' instance into parse_pathspec().

Correct.

An attribute annotated pathspec may want to check if the attributes used in it are used in the repository at all for validation or optimization purposes, for example.

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