ls-files -i: pay attention to exclusion of leading paths

"git ls-files --exclude=t/ -i" does not show paths in directory t/
that have been added to the index, but it should.

The excluded() API was designed for callers who walk the tree from
the top, checking each level of the directory hierarchy as it
descends if it is excluded, and not even bothering to recurse into
an excluded directory.  This would allow us optimize for a common
case by not having to check if the exclude pattern "foo/" matches
when looking at "foo/bar", because the caller should have noticed
that "foo" is excluded and did not even bother to read "foo/bar"
out of opendir()/readdir() to call it.

The code for "ls-files -i" however walks the index linearly, feeding
paths without checking if the leading directory is already excluded.

Introduce a helper function path_excluded() to let this caller
properly call excluded() check for higher hierarchies as necessary.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dir.h b/dir.h
index dd6947e1d4..7378e69c17 100644
--- a/dir.h
+++ b/dir.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #ifndef DIR_H
 #define DIR_H
 
+#include "strbuf.h"
+
 struct dir_entry {
 	unsigned int len;
 	char name[FLEX_ARRAY]; /* more */
@@ -78,6 +80,20 @@ extern int excluded_from_list(const char *pathname, int pathlen, const char *bas
 			      int *dtype, struct exclude_list *el);
 extern int excluded(struct dir_struct *, const char *, int *);
 struct dir_entry *dir_add_ignored(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *pathname, int len);
+
+/*
+ * The excluded() API is meant for callers that check each level of leading
+ * directory hierarchies with excluded() to avoid recursing into excluded
+ * directories.  Callers that do not do so should use this API instead.
+ */
+struct path_exclude_check {
+	struct dir_struct *dir;
+	struct strbuf path;
+};
+extern void path_exclude_check_init(struct path_exclude_check *, struct dir_struct *);
+extern void path_exclude_check_clear(struct path_exclude_check *);
+extern int path_excluded(struct path_exclude_check *, struct cache_entry *);
+
 extern int add_excludes_from_file_to_list(const char *fname, const char *base, int baselen,
 					  char **buf_p, struct exclude_list *which, int check_index);
 extern void add_excludes_from_file(struct dir_struct *, const char *fname);