Add the `PATHSPEC_FROMROOT` flag to allow callers to instruct
'parse_pathspec()' that all provided pathspecs are relative to the root
of the repository. This allows a caller to prevent a path that may be
outside of the repository from erroring out during the pathspec struct
construction.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
pathspec.c | 2 +-
pathspec.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/pathspec.c b/pathspec.c
index 7ababb315..ff622ba18 100644
--- a/pathspec.c
+++ b/pathspec.c
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static void init_pathspec_item(struct pathspec_item *item, unsigned flags,
if (pathspec_prefix >= 0) {
match = xstrdup(copyfrom);
prefixlen = pathspec_prefix;
- } else if (magic & PATHSPEC_FROMTOP) {
+ } else if ((magic & PATHSPEC_FROMTOP) || (flags & PATHSPEC_FROMROOT)) {
match = xstrdup(copyfrom);
prefixlen = 0;
} else {
diff --git a/pathspec.h b/pathspec.h
index 49fd823dd..cad197436 100644
--- a/pathspec.h
+++ b/pathspec.h
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ struct pathspec {
* allowed, then it will automatically set for every pathspec.
*/
#define PATHSPEC_LITERAL_PATH (1<<8)
+/* For callers that know all paths are relative to the root of the repository */
+#define PATHSPEC_FROMROOT (1<<9)
extern void parse_pathspec(struct pathspec *pathspec,
unsigned magic_mask,
--
2.11.0.483.g087da7b7c-goog