match_pathname(): drop unused "flags" parameter

This field has not been used since the function was introduced in
b559263216 (exclude: split pathname matching code into a separate
function, 2012-10-15), though there was a brief period where it was
erroneously used and then reverted in ed4958477b (dir: fix pattern
matching on dirs, 2021-09-24) and 5ceb663e92 (dir: fix
directory-matching bug, 2021-11-02).

It's possible we'd eventually add a flag that makes it useful here, but
there are only a handful of callers. It would be easy to add back if
necessary, and in the meantime this makes the function interface less
misleading.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dir.h b/dir.h
index 7bc862030c..674747d93a 100644
--- a/dir.h
+++ b/dir.h
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ int match_basename(const char *, int,
 		   const char *, int, int, unsigned);
 int match_pathname(const char *, int,
 		   const char *, int,
-		   const char *, int, int, unsigned);
+		   const char *, int, int);
 
 struct path_pattern *last_matching_pattern(struct dir_struct *dir,
 					   struct index_state *istate,