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

Brandon Williams [off-list ref] writes:

...  Note that if we go with the route to not pass
in an index now, it doesn't necessarily mean that down the line we won't
have to pass a 'repository' instance into parse_pathspec().

Correct.  

An attribute annotated pathspec may want to check if the attributes
used in it are used in the repository at all for validation or
optimization purposes, for example.