+static int match_entry(const struct name_entry *entry, int pathlen,
+ const char *match, int matchlen,
+ int *never_interesting)
+{
+ int m = -1; /* signals that we haven't called strncmp() */
+
+ if (*never_interesting) {
+ /*
+ * We have not seen any match that sorts later
+ * than the current path.
+ */
+
+ /*
+ * Does match sort strictly earlier than path
+ * with their common parts?
+ */
+ m = strncmp(match, entry->path,
+ (matchlen < pathlen) ? matchlen : pathlen);
+ if (m < 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * If we come here even once, that means there is at
+ * least one pathspec that would sort equal to or
+ * later than the path we are currently looking at.
+ * In other words, if we have never reached this point
+ * after iterating all pathspecs, it means all
+ * pathspecs are either outside of base, or inside the
+ * base but sorts strictly earlier than the current
+ * one. In either case, they will never match the
+ * subsequent entries. In such a case, we initialized
+ * the variable to -1 and that is what will be
+ * returned, allowing the caller to terminate early.
+ */
+ *never_interesting = 0;
+ }
+
+ if (pathlen > matchlen)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (matchlen > pathlen) {
+ if (match[pathlen] != '/')
+ return 0;
+ if (!S_ISDIR(entry->mode))
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ if (m == -1)
+ /*
+ * we cheated and did not do strncmp(), so we do
+ * that here.
+ */
+ m = strncmp(match, entry->path, pathlen);
+
+ /*
+ * If common part matched earlier then it is a hit,
+ * because we rejected the case where path is not a
+ * leading directory and is shorter than match.
+ */
+ if (!m)
+ return 1;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int match_dir_prefix(const char *base, int baselen,
+ const char *match, int matchlen)
+{
+ if (strncmp(base, match, matchlen))
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * If the base is a subdirectory of a path which
+ * was specified, all of them are interesting.
+ */
+ if (!matchlen ||
+ base[matchlen] == '/' ||
+ match[matchlen - 1] == '/')
+ return 1;
+
+ /* Just a random prefix match */
+ return 0;
+}
+