def _files(self):
        if self.isexact():
            return [f for f in self._m1.files() if self(f)]
        # If m1 is not an exact matcher, we can't easily figure out the set of
        # files, because its files() are not always files. For example, if
        # m1 is "path:dir" and m2 is "rootfileins:.", we don't
        # want to remove "dir" from the set even though it would match m2,
        # because the "dir" in m1 may not be a file.
        return self._m1.files()