From: Michael Loeffler Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:14:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] git-fetch: allow glob pattern in refspec Message-ID: <1164651262.13153.31.camel@ibook.zvpunry.de> In-Reply-To: <7vzmaik4mi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> hi, Am Mittwoch, den 22.11.2006, 23:24 -0800 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > This adds Andy's refspec glob. You can have a single line: > > Pull: refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* How about using extended regex for this, something like this: Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master Pull: refs/tags/v(.*):refs/tags/origin/v\1 ... > +expand_refs_wildcard () { > + for ref > + do ... How about using something like: echo "$ls_remote_result" | sed -n -r -e "s:$ref: p" Using $ref as a part of the sed expression is not a good idea (.* should not match past the ':'), but something like this maybe. What do you think? bye