Re: [RFC] The design of new pathspec features

Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

        prefixq=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix-glob-quoted)
        pathspec="$prefixq$1"

but magic that applies only to a substring may have other uses.

Yeah, that simplifies things. Supporting applying magic over just
parts of the pathspec pattern sounds complex. Just a small
modification. That rev-parse needs to look at "$1" as well.

Makes sense.  More like

	prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)
	test -z "$prefix" || cd $(git rev-parse --show-cdup)
	...
	pathspec=$(git rev-parse --prefix-pathspec "$prefix" "$1")
	git ls-files "$pathspec"

which may take prefix="D*cumentati*n" (from the previous example),
and the user may have given ":(icase)hell*.txt" to "$1".  Ideally
the scriptors shouldn't have to worry about how to add the prefix to
the user supplied pathspec.