Manuel Barkhau <mbark...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> If you pass a string, you will get a string, so existing code will continue 
> to work as before.

Somebody might have code that is running against a flat directory and have 
written their ignore function expecting to get a pathlib.Path, because that's 
the only case they encountered. This change would break their code and so would 
an upgrade to 3.9 with the patch that was just merged.

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