From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 00:28:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] clean: optimize and document cases where we recurse into subdirectories
Message-ID: <xmqqzh97zu5k.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <b4cb448e8d76ae16f6fa38a773244bb4a8499938.1591858774.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> ...
> However, in clean's case we don't need to recurse into ignored
> directories; that is just a waste of time.

Nice.

> Rather than relying on other bugs in fill_directory()'s former
> logic to provide the behavior of skipping ignored directories, make use
> of the DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO_MODE_MATCHING value specifically added in
> commit eec0f7f2b7 ("status: add option to show ignored files
> differently", 2017-10-30) for this purpose.

Thanks.