match: express anypats(), not prefix(), in terms of the others
When I added prefix() in
9789b4a7c595 (match: introduce boolean
prefix() method, 2014-10-28), we already had always(), isexact(), and
anypats(), so it made sense to write it in terms of them (a prefix
matcher is one that isn't any of the other types). It's only now that
I realize that it's much more natural to define prefix() explicitly
(it's one that uses path: patterns, roughly speaking) and let
anypats() be defined in terms of the others. Remember that these
methods are all used for determining which fast paths are
possible. anypats() simply means that no fast paths are possible (it
could be called complex() instead). Further evidence is that
rootfilesin:some/dir does not have any patterns, but it's still
considered to be an anypats() matcher. That's because anypats() really
just means that it's not a prefix() matcher (and not always() and not
isexact()).
This patch thus changes prefix() to return False by default and
anypats() to return True only if the other three are False. Having
anypats() be True by default also seems like a good thing, because it
means forgetting to override it will lead only to performance bugs,
not correctness bugs.
Since the base class's implementation changes, we're also forced to
update the subclasses. That change exposed and fixed a bug in the
differencematcher: for example when both its two input matchers were
prefix matchers, we would say that the result was also a prefix
matcher, which is incorrect, because e.g "path:dir - path:dir/foo" no
longer matches everything under "dir" (which is what prefix() means).
[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>