On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 06:50:22AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Totally outside the topic, but I wonder if we can further optimize
by adding an early rejection using .nowildcard_len?  Instead of
allowing a wildcarded "dir/*" pathspec element from disabling the
Bloom filter altogether, we could say "dir/ is not possibly altered,
so there may be dir/A, dir/B, etc., in the directory, nothing that
would match dir/* wildcard would have been modified", couldn't we?

Indeed, that's what I demonstrated back in:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/20200529085038.26008-35-szeder.dev@gmail.com/