On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:13 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thought I'd just start another thread for this rather than tack it
> onto the pathalogical case thread.
>
> In commit 4c251e5cb5 ("wildmatch: make /**/ match zero or more
> directories", 2012-10-15) Duy added support for ** in globs.
>
> One test-case for this is:
>
> match 1 0 'foo/baz/bar' 'foo/**/**/bar'
>
> I.e. foo/**/**/bar matches foo/baz/bar. However due to some
> pre-pruning we do in pathspec/ls-tree we can't ever match it, because
> the first thing we do is peel the first part of the path/pattern off,
> i.e. foo/, and then match baz/bar against **/**/bar.
Yeah. I think the prefix compare trick predated wildmatch. When I
introduced positional wildcards "**/" I failed to spot this. Good
catch.
Ideally this sort of optimization should be contained within wildmatch
(or whatever matching engine we'll be using). It also opens up more
opportunity (like precompile pattern mentioned elsewhere in this
thread).
You need to be careful though, when we do case-insensitive matching,
sometimes we want to match the prefix case _sensitively_ instead. So
we need to pass the "prefix" info in some cases to the matching
engine.
I guess time is now ripe (i.e. somebody volunteers to work on this ;-)
to improve wildmatch. "improve" can also be "rewriting to pcre" if we
really want that route, which I have no opinion because I don't know
pcre availability on other (some obscure) platforms.
--
Duy