syncthing/lib/ignore/ignoreresult
Jakob Borg 3297624037
lib/ignore: Optimise ignoring directories for filesystem watcher (fixes #9339) (#9340)
This improves the ignore handling so that directories can be fully
ignored (skipped in the watcher) in more cases. Specifically, where the
previous rule was that any complex `!`-pattern would disable skipping
directories, the new rule is that only matches on patterns *after* such
a `!`-pattern disable skipping. That is, the following now does the
intuitive thing:

```
/foo
/bar
!whatever
*
```

- `/foo/**` and `/bar/**` are completely skipped, since there is no
chance anything underneath them could ever be not-ignored
- `!whatever` toggles the "can't skip directories any more" flag
- Anything that matches `*` can't skip directories, because it's
possible we can have `whatever` match something deeper.

To enable this, some refactoring was necessary:

- The "can skip dirs" flag is now a property of the match result, not of
the pattern set as a whole.
- That meant returning a boolean is not good enough, we need to actually
return the entire `Result` (or, like, two booleans but that seemed
uglier and more annoying to use)
- `ShouldIgnore(string) boolean` went away with
`Match(string).IsIgnored()` being the obvious replacement (API
simplification!)
- The watcher then needed to import the `ignore` package (for the
`Result` type), but `fs` imports the watcher and `ignore` imports `fs`.
That's a cycle, so I broke out `Result` into a package of its own so
that it can be safely imported everywhere in things like `type Matcher
interface { Match(string) result.Result }`. There's a fair amount of
stuttering in `result.Result` and maybe we should go with something like
`ignoreresult.R` or so, leaving this open for discussion.

Tests refactored to suit, I think this change is in fact quite well
covered by the existing ones...

Also some noise because a few of the changed files were quite old and
got the `gofumpt` treatment by my editor. Sorry not sorry.

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Co-authored-by: Simon Frei <freisim93@gmail.com>
2024-01-15 10:13:22 +00:00
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ignoreresult_foldcase.go lib/ignore: Refactor out result type (#9343) 2024-01-13 18:58:23 +01:00
ignoreresult_nofoldcase.go lib/ignore: Refactor out result type (#9343) 2024-01-13 18:58:23 +01:00
ignoreresult_test.go lib/ignore: Optimise ignoring directories for filesystem watcher (fixes #9339) (#9340) 2024-01-15 10:13:22 +00:00
ignoreresult.go lib/ignore: Optimise ignoring directories for filesystem watcher (fixes #9339) (#9340) 2024-01-15 10:13:22 +00:00