From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 00:54:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] pathspec: convert parse_pathspec to take an index
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.