Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] stash: pass pathspec as pointer >> >> Passing the pathspec by value is potentially confusing, as the copy is >> only a shallow copy, so save the overhead of the copy, and pass the >> pathspec struct as a pointer. >> >> In addition use copy_pathspec to copy the pathspec into >> rev.prune_data, so the copy is a proper deep copy, and owned by the >> revision API, as that's what the API expects. > > It does make quite a lot of sense, but do we need clear_pathspec() > at strategic places after we are done using these copied instances? Another thing is that this also needs Dscho's fix to pass down the pathspec that was originally given, not the parsed part.
