Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 07/23/2013 08:32 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Interesting. This is ancient and dates back to 7612a1ef (git-rm:
>> honor -n flag., 2006-06-08).
> Originally it comes from d9b814cc97 (by Linus), which introduced:
> + seen = NULL;
> + if (pathspec) {
> + for (i = 0; pathspec[i] ; i++)
> + /* nothing */;
> + seen = xmalloc(i);
> + memset(seen, 0, i);
> + }
>
> Then in 7612a1efdb0c the second seen assignment was made unconditional.
That is why I blamed the bug to 7612a1ef. Before that, without pathspec,
directory traversal function were told not to report which ones were
seen and which ones were not by passing seen=NULL.
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