Re: [PATCH] pathspec: rename per-item field has_wildcard to use_wildcard

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

2011/4/6 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>  * I was looking at the codepaths that would need to be touched in order
>   to properly support the "magic pathspec" we have been discussing, and
>   am leaning to conclude that all the users of get_pathspec() need to be
>   rewritten to throw the remainder of argv[] at a function that fills a
>   struct pathspec (in other words, a combination of get_pathspec() and
>   init_pathspec()).  Michael's "alternative approach to grep --full-tree"
>   was operating at the get_pathspec() level, but that function is an
>   interface to return an array of plain-vanilla strings only, and there
>   is no place to hook richer per-item information on the elements.  We
>   would need "struct pathspec" in the function where we parse the argv[]
>   and combine its elements with prefix.

I have started working on the conversion, but it may take a while
because in many places pathspec is still assumed a prefix (and handled
separately, which is not good for negative pathspec). Fundamental
support for magic pathspec and "top dir" notation probably do not need
get_pathspec() converted to struct pathspec.
-- 
Duy