Re: [PATCH 04/10] attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignore

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Or the user might think "path/ attr1" sets attr1 for all files under
>>> "path/" because it does not make sense to attach attributes to a
>>> directory in git.
>>
>>    ...
>>
>>    We may not have a need to assign a real attribute to a directory
>>    right now, because nothing in Git asks for an attribute for a
>>    directory. But that does not necessarily mean we would never need a
>>    way to give an attribute to a directory but not to its contents.
>
> Exactly why we should not make "path/ attr" no-op. If we want to make
> it meaningful some day in future, I don't think we want those no-ops
> lay around and suddenly cause changes in behavior with a new version
> of git.

I do not think you understood.  "path/ attr" is a no-op from the
point of view of the *users* of the current versions of Git.  It is
perfectly fine to accept and apply attr to "path/"; no codepath in
Git should be asking about path/ anyway, so it ends up to be a
no-op.  You shouldn't be erroring out at the syntactic level, i.e.
when these lines are parsed.