Am 08.07.23 um 00:04 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c > index 3acac7beb1..6116022ae6 100644 > --- a/dir.c > +++ b/dir.c > @@ -488,9 +476,6 @@ static int do_match_pathspec(struct index_state *istate, > return 0; > } > > - name += prefix; > - namelen -= prefix; > - > for (i = ps->nr - 1; i >= 0; i--) { > int how; > > @@ -506,8 +491,8 @@ static int do_match_pathspec(struct index_state *istate, > */ > if (seen && ps->items[i].magic & PATHSPEC_EXCLUDE) > seen[i] = MATCHED_FNMATCH; > - how = match_pathspec_item(istate, ps->items+i, prefix, name, > - namelen, flags); > + how = match_pathspec_item(istate, ps->items+i, > + name, namelen, flags); With that, the parameter "prefix" of do_match_pathspec() becomes unused and can be removed. This cascades to match_pathspec_with_flags(), match_pathspec(), dir_path_match() and builtin/add.c::prune_directory(), and fill_directory() can lose its return value. The code continues here like this, though: if (ps->recursive && (ps->magic & PATHSPEC_MAXDEPTH) && ps->max_depth != -1 && how && how != MATCHED_FNMATCH) { int len = ps->items[i].len; if (name[len] == '/') len++; if (within_depth(name+len, namelen-len, 0, ps->max_depth)) how = MATCHED_EXACTLY; else how = 0; } And "name" here would be affected by "prefix" no longer being added. Does it fix or break --max-depth? I think neither: builtin/grep.c -- the only user of PATHSPEC_MAXDEPTH AFAICS -- passes a prefix of 0. René