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Re: [PATCH] Restore ls-remote reference pattern matching

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Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind-git@orakel.ntnu.no>
Date
Dec 9, 2007, 15:31 UTC
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On 9. des.. 2007, at 14.26, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
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> This still does not match the behavior of the old shell implementation
> completely - because $pat was not quoted, shell pattern characters in
> $pat worked, and things like "git ls-remote . 'refs/heads/something-- 
> *'"
> were possible (and used in some of my scripts), so a full fnmatch()
> call is still needed.

The example in the ls-remote manpage ("git ls-remote --tags <remote> v \*") also fails because of this.

Eyvind Bernhardsen
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  1. Restore ls-remote reference pattern matchingDaniel Barkalow, Dec 9, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2007
  3. Daniel BarkalowDec 9, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2007
  5. Sergey VlasovDec 9, 2007
  6. Eyvind BernhardsenDec 9, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2007
  9. Eyvind BernhardsenDec 10, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2007

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