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2017-01-08pathspec: remove the deprecated get_pathspec functionLibravatar Brandon Williams1-2/+0
Now that all callers of the old 'get_pathspec' interface have been migrated to use the new pathspec struct interface it can be removed from the codebase. Since there are no more users of the '_raw' field in the pathspec struct it can also be removed. This patch also removes the old functionality of modifying the const char **argv array that was passed into parse_pathspec. Instead the constructed 'match' string (which is a pathspec element with the prefix prepended) is only stored in its corresponding pathspec_item entry. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15guard against new pathspec magic in pathspec matching codeLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+19
GUARD_PATHSPEC() marks pathspec-sensitive code, basically all those that touch anything in 'struct pathspec' except fields "nr" and "original". GUARD_PATHSPEC() is not supposed to fail. It's mainly to help the designers catch unsupported codepaths. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15add parse_pathspec() that converts cmdline args to struct pathspecLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+18
Currently to fill a struct pathspec, we do: const char **paths; paths = get_pathspec(prefix, argv); ... init_pathspec(&pathspec, paths); "paths" can only carry bare strings, which loses information from command line arguments such as pathspec magic or the prefix part's length for each argument. parse_pathspec() is introduced to combine the two calls into one. The plan is gradually replace all get_pathspec() and init_pathspec() with parse_pathspec(). get_pathspec() now becomes a thin wrapper of parse_pathspec(). parse_pathspec() allows the caller to reject the pathspec magics that it does not support. When a new pathspec magic is introduced, we can enable it per command after making sure that all underlying code has no problem with the new magic. "flags" parameter is currently unused. But it would allow callers to pass certain instructions to parse_pathspec, for example forcing literal pathspec when no magic is used. With the introduction of parse_pathspec, there are now two functions that can initialize struct pathspec: init_pathspec and parse_pathspec. Any semantic changes in struct pathspec must be reflected in both functions. init_pathspec() will be phased out in favor of parse_pathspec(). Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-14Start preparing the API documents.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
Most of them are still stubs, but the procedure to build the HTML documentation, maintaining the index and installing the end product are there. I placed names of people who are likely to know the most about the topic in the stub files, so that volunteers will know whom to ask questions as needed. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>