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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt | 19 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt index 4f63a04d7d..90d1aff625 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt @@ -8,6 +8,23 @@ Talk about * is_inside_git_dir() * is_inside_work_tree() * setup_work_tree() -* get_pathspec() (Dscho) + +Pathspec +-------- + +See glossary-context.txt for the syntax of pathspec. In memory, a +pathspec set is represented by "struct pathspec" and is prepared by +parse_pathspec(). This function takes several arguments: + +- magic_mask specifies what features that are NOT supported by the + following code. If a user attempts to use such a feature, + parse_pathspec() can reject it early. + +- flags specifies other things that the caller wants parse_pathspec to + perform. + +- prefix and args come from cmd_* functions + +get_pathspec() is obsolete and should never be used in new code. |