match: combine regex code for path: and relpath: The regexes for path: and relpath: patterns are the same (since the paths have already been normalized at the point we create the regexes). I don't think the "if pat == '.'" will have any effect relpath: because relpath: patterns will have the root directory already normalized to '' by pathutil.canonpath() (unlike path:, for which the root gets normalized to '.' by util.normpath()).