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Re: [PATCH] [COGITO] make cg-tag use git-check-ref-format

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Dec 16, 2005, 09:17 UTC
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<20051216091707.GR22159@pasky.or.cz>
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Dear diary, on Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:17:19AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
> > The wildcard letters like ? and * I understand and sympathetic
> > about somewhat.  Something like this:
> >
> >         name="*.sh" ;# this also comes from the end user
> >         echo $name
> >
> > ends up showing every shell script in the current directory,
> > and not literal '*.sh'.
> 
> So why don't we do this?
I'm all for it, and now I also agree that forbidding \'" is pointless.
Thanks,
-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Message 9 of 9 in “[COGITO] make cg-tag use git-check-ref-format”
  1. [COGITO] make cg-tag use git-check-ref-formatMartin Atukunda, Dec 13, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2005
  3. Martin AtukundaDec 13, 2005
  4. Petr BaudisDec 13, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2005
  6. Alex RiesenDec 15, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 15, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 16, 2005
  9. Petr BaudisDec 16, 2005

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