Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> > > A following change will add support for pathspecs to the git diff > --no-index command. This mode of git diff does not load any repository. > > Add a new PATHSPEC_NO_REPOSITORY flag indicating that we're parsing > pathspecs without a repository. > > Both PATHSPEC_ATTR and PATHSPEC_FROMTOP require a repository to > function. Thus, verify that both of these are set in magic_mask to > ensure they won't be accepted when PATHSPEC_NO_REPOSITORY is set. > > Check PATHSPEC_NO_REPOSITORY when warning about paths outside the > directory tree. When the flag is set, do not look for a git repository > when generating the warning message. > > Finally, add a BUG in match_pathspec_item if the istate is NULL but the > pathspec has PATHSPEC_ATTR set. Callers which support PATHSPEC_ATTR > should always pass a valid istate, and callers which don't pass a valid > istate should have set PATHSPEC_ATTR in the magic_mask field to disable > support for attribute-based pathspecs. All very sensible considerations. > diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c > index 2f2b654b0252..45aac0bfacab 100644 > --- a/dir.c > +++ b/dir.c > @@ -396,9 +396,12 @@ static int match_pathspec_item(struct index_state *istate, > strncmp(item->match, name - prefix, item->prefix)) > return 0; > > - if (item->attr_match_nr && > - !match_pathspec_attrs(istate, name - prefix, namelen + prefix, item)) > - return 0; > + if (item->attr_match_nr) { > + if (!istate) > + BUG("magic PATHSPEC_ATTR requires an index"); > + if (!match_pathspec_attrs(istate, name - prefix, namelen + prefix, item)) > + return 0; > + } It is a bit curious why we do not check PATHSPEC_NO_REPOSITORY here, but it is OK, because it is a BUG for istate to be NULL when we have a repository anyway. > diff --git a/pathspec.c b/pathspec.c > index 2b4e434bc0aa..a3ddd701c740 100644 > --- a/pathspec.c > +++ b/pathspec.c > @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ static void init_pathspec_item(struct pathspec_item *item, unsigned flags, > if (!match) { > const char *hint_path; > > - if (!have_git_dir()) > + if ((flags & PATHSPEC_NO_REPOSITORY) || !have_git_dir()) > die(_("'%s' is outside the directory tree"), > copyfrom); > hint_path = repo_get_work_tree(the_repository); This is a part of generating an error message. We die early to avoid having to call get-work-tree when we know we are not even in any working tree, which makes sense. > @@ -614,6 +614,10 @@ void parse_pathspec(struct pathspec *pathspec, > (flags & PATHSPEC_PREFER_FULL)) > BUG("PATHSPEC_PREFER_CWD and PATHSPEC_PREFER_FULL are incompatible"); > > + if ((flags & PATHSPEC_NO_REPOSITORY) && > + (~magic_mask & (PATHSPEC_ATTR | PATHSPEC_FROMTOP))) > + BUG("PATHSPEC_NO_REPOSITORY is incompatible with PATHSPEC_ATTR and PATHSPEC_FROMTOP"); Hmph, I am not sure if this change is correct. The magic_mask parameter is passed by a caller to say "even if parsr_pathspec() parses a pathspec using a certain set of features properly, the caller is not prepared to handle the parsed result". If magic_mask lacks PATHSPEC_ATTR, that does not necessarily mean that the given pathspec contains any pathspec items that do use the attr magic. It merely says that the caller is not prepared to handle a pathspec item that uses the attr magic feature. If we are going to add a call to parse_pathspec() in a code path that is specific to diff-no-index, isn't it sufficient to pass PATHSPEC_ATTR and PATHSPEC_FROMTOP as magic_mask without this change?