Am 11.05.2017 um 03:48 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
But perhaps you are right---it may be wrong for the contents of the current index (or any index) to affect how a pathspec element is parsed in the first place. If the current code (before this series) uses the_index only for error checking, we may want to separate that out of the parse_pathspec() callchain, so that it does not even look at any index (not just the_index). And that may be a better change overall.
Just a reminder: if core.ignoreCase is set, the variant of a path in the index takes precedence over the variant found in the working tree. Hence, pathspec must be matched against the index that corresponds to the working tree. I guess that's the_index.
-- Hannes