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The show_other_directories case in treat_directory() tried to handle
both excludes and untracked files with the same logic, and mishandled
both the excludes and the untracked files in the process, in different
ways. Split that logic apart, and then focus on the logic for the
excludes; a subsequent commit will address the logic for untracked
files.
For show_other_directories, an excluded directory means that
every path underneath that directory will also be excluded. Given that
the calling code requested to just show directories when everything
under a directory had the same state (that's what the
"DIR_SHOW_OTHER_DIRECTORIES" flag means), we generally do not need to
traverse into such directories and can just immediately mark them as
ignored (i.e. as path_excluded). The only reason we cannot just
immediately return path_excluded is the DIR_HIDE_EMPTY_DIRECTORIES flag
and the possibility that the ignored directory is an empty directory.
The code previously treated DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO in most cases as an
exception as well, which was wrong. It can sometimes reduce the number
of cases where we need to recurse (namely if
DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO_MODE_MATCHING is also set), but should not be able
to increase the number of cases where we need to recurse. Fix the logic
accordingly.
Some sidenotes about possible confusion with dir.c:
* "ignored" often refers to an untracked ignore", i.e. a file which is
not tracked which matches one of the ignore/exclusion rules. But you
can also have a "tracked ignore", a tracked file that happens to match
one of the ignore/exclusion rules and which dir.c has to worry about
since "git ls-files -c -i" is supposed to list them.
* The dir code often uses "ignored" and "excluded" interchangeably,
which you need to keep in mind while reading the code.
* "exclude" is used multiple ways in the code:
* As noted above, "exclude" is often a synonym for "ignored".
* The logic for parsing .gitignore files was re-used in
.git/info/sparse-checkout, except there it is used to mark paths that
the user wants to *keep*. This was mostly addressed by commit
65edd96aec ("treewide: rename 'exclude' methods to 'pattern'",
2019-09-03), but every once in a while you'll find a comment about
"exclude" referring to these patterns that might in fact be in use
by the sparse-checkout machinery for inclusion rules.
* The word "EXCLUDE" is also used for pathspec negation, as in
(pathspec->items[3].magic & PATHSPEC_EXCLUDE)
Thus if a user had a .gitignore file containing
*~
*.log
!settings.log
And then ran
git add -- 'settings.*' ':^settings.log'
Then :^settings.log is a pathspec negation making settings.log not
be requested to be added even though all other settings.* files are
being added. Also, !settings.log in the gitignore file is a negative
exclude pattern meaning that settings.log is normally a file we
want to track even though all other *.log files are ignored.
Sometimes it feels like dir.c needs its own glossary with its many
definitions, including the multiply-defined terms.
Reported-by: Jason Gore <Jason.Gore@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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