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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-path-walk.adoc b/Documentation/technical/api-path-walk.adoc index 7075d0d5ab..3e089211fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-path-walk.adoc +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-path-walk.adoc @@ -56,8 +56,17 @@ better off using the revision walk API instead. the revision walk so that the walk emits commits marked with the `UNINTERESTING` flag. +`pl`:: + This pattern list pointer allows focusing the path-walk search to + a set of patterns, only emitting paths that match the given + patterns. See linkgit:gitignore[5] or + linkgit:git-sparse-checkout[1] for details about pattern lists. + When the pattern list uses cone-mode patterns, then the path-walk + API can prune the set of paths it walks to improve performance. + Examples -------- See example usages in: - `t/helper/test-path-walk.c` + `t/helper/test-path-walk.c`, + `builtin/backfill.c` |