Optimize directory listing with pathspec limiter.

The way things are set up, you can now pass a "pathspec" to the
"read_directory()" function. If you pass NULL, it acts exactly
like it used to do (read everything). If you pass a non-NULL
pointer, it will simplify it into a "these are the prefixes
without any special characters", and stop any readdir() early if
the path in question doesn't match any of the prefixes.

NOTE! This does *not* obviate the need for the caller to do the *exact*
pathspec match later. It's a first-level filter on "read_directory()", but
it does not do the full pathspec thing. Maybe it should. But in the
meantime, builtin-add.c really does need to do first

	read_directory(dir, .., pathspec);
	if (pathspec)
		prune_directory(dir, pathspec, baselen);

ie the "prune_directory()" part will do the *exact* pathspec pruning,
while the "read_directory()" will use the pathspec just to do some quick
high-level pruning of the directories it will recurse into.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dir.h b/dir.h
index 7233d65bbd..33c31f25fb 100644
--- a/dir.h
+++ b/dir.h
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ extern int common_prefix(const char **pathspec);
 #define MATCHED_EXACTLY 3
 extern int match_pathspec(const char **pathspec, const char *name, int namelen, int prefix, char *seen);
 
-extern int read_directory(struct dir_struct *, const char *path, const char *base, int baselen);
+extern int read_directory(struct dir_struct *, const char *path, const char *base, int baselen, const char **pathspec);
 extern int push_exclude_per_directory(struct dir_struct *, const char *, int);
 extern void pop_exclude_per_directory(struct dir_struct *, int);