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

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On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

Yes. simplify struct was a thing when pathspec was an array of char *.
At this point I think it can retire (when we have time to retire it)
-- 
Duy



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