On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The pathspec mechanism is extended via the new
>> ":(attr:eol=input)pattern/to/match" syntax to filter paths so that it
>> requires paths to not just match the given pattern but also have the
>> specified attrs attached for them to be chosen.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 20 +++++
>> dir.c | 35 ++++++++
>
> Pathspec can be processed in a couple more places. The big two are
> match_pathspec and tree_entry_interesting, the former traverses a list
> while the latter does a tree. You don't have to implement attr
> matching in tree_entry_interesting right now because nobody needs it,
> probably. But you need to make sure if somebody accidentally calls
> tree_entry_interesting with an attr pathspec, then it should
> die("BUG"), not silently ignore attr.
>
I am looking into this now.