Re: [PATCH 5/8] pathspec: convert strip_submodule_slash to take an index

Brandon Williams [off-list ref] writes:

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <redacted>
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 pathspec.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

This conversion is not wrong per-se, but I wonder if there is a
practical situation where we want to validate a pathspec element
against an in-core index that does not represent the index currently
in effect (aka "the_index").  I do not think of any offhand myself.