git-send-pack: broken handling of ref specs with wildcards

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2007, 22:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20070607225302.GA10633@steel.home>

Try something like this:

    git-send-pack --remote=origin --thin /some/other/repo \
    'refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/child/*'

The result looks broken: the sent reference are created not in refs/remotes/child/ but just in refs/heads/ of /some/other/repo.

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