Re: grep --no-index and pathspec

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

"grep --no-index" and "grep" have different codepaths for looking up the
files/blobs. If I read that correctly then "grep --no-index -- pathspec"
only does a literal match at the left boundary, whereas for the normal
mode glob patterns are allowed.

CC'ing Junio who created "--no-index".

Anything with --no-index is a quick hack, so I wouldn't be surprised if it
ignored the normal pathspec logic.  As I do not recall the details of the
particular codepath and offhand do not know how involved a change to pay
proper attention to the pathspecs would be, but I suspect that it would be
more appropriate to fix it on top of nd/struct-pathspec topic than writing
the current behaviour down in the documentation outside of BUGS section as
if it were a feature ;-).

This is a band-aid modelled after what builtin/clean.c does to the
returned list from fill_directory(), and it seems to do its job, but I am
quite unhappy about it.

The function fill_directory() already takes a pathspec, albeit in the
degenerate "const char **" form.  Why does its output need further
filtering?

 builtin/grep.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index c3af876..5afee2f 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c

@@ -626,6 +626,10 @@ static int grep_directory(struct grep_opt *opt, const struct pathspec *pathspec)
 
 	fill_directory(&dir, pathspec->raw);
 	for (i = 0; i < dir.nr; i++) {
+		const char *name = dir.entries[i]->name;
+		int namelen = strlen(name);
+		if (!match_pathspec_depth(pathspec, name, namelen, 0, NULL))
+			continue;
 		hit |= grep_file(opt, dir.entries[i]->name);
 		if (hit && opt->status_only)
 			break;