Re: [PATCH 02/17] dir: convert create_simplify to use the pathspec struct interface

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On 12/07, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:51 AM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Convert 'create_simplify()' to use the pathspec struct interface from
> > using the '_raw' entry in the pathspec.
> 
> It would be even better to kill this create_simplify() and let
> simplify_away() handle struct pathspec directly.
> 
> There is a bug in this code, that might have been found if we
> simpify_away() handled pathspec directly: the memcmp() in
> simplify_away() will not play well with :(icase) magic. My bad. If
> :(icase) is used, the easiest/safe way is simplify nothing. Later on
> maybe we can teach simplify_away() to do strncasecmp instead. We could
> ignore exclude patterns there too (although not excluding is not a
> bug).

So are you implying that the simplify struct needs to be killed?  That
way the pathspec struct itself is being passed around instead?

-- 
Brandon Williams



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