Merge branch 'as/check-ignore'

[~andy/git] / setup.c

diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index f108c4b990c0e4f6a98c1fe34d3031040c84195a..1ccfafaa7a85875338a49953518207b74dca62c4 100644 (file)
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -246,6 +246,25 @@ static const char *prefix_pathspec(const char *prefix, int prefixlen, const char
                return prefix_path(prefix, prefixlen, copyfrom);
 }
 
+/*
+ * N.B. get_pathspec() is deprecated in favor of the "struct pathspec"
+ * based interface - see pathspec_magic above.
+ *
+ * Arguments:
+ *  - prefix - a path relative to the root of the working tree
+ *  - pathspec - a list of paths underneath the prefix path
+ *
+ * Iterates over pathspec, prepending each path with prefix,
+ * and return the resulting list.
+ *
+ * If pathspec is empty, return a singleton list containing prefix.
+ *
+ * If pathspec and prefix are both empty, return an empty list.
+ *
+ * This is typically used by built-in commands such as add.c, in order
+ * to normalize argv arguments provided to the built-in into a list of
+ * paths to process, all relative to the root of the working tree.
+ */
 const char **get_pathspec(const char *prefix, const char **pathspec)
 {
        const char *entry = *pathspec;