From: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind-git@orakel.ntnu.no>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:31:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore ls-remote reference pattern matching
Message-ID: <02ECE8E0-3D11-47AE-9875-69D0CEA34453@orakel.ntnu.no>
In-Reply-To: <20071209162632.a16bfd6e.vsu@altlinux.ru>

On 9. des.. 2007, at 14.26, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> 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