Re: [PATCH] Git.pm: Add remote_refs() git-ls-remote frontend

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Aug 31, 2007, 01:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20070831013700.GL1219@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6lk5z2p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 02:26:22AM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > Should support all the important features, I guess. Too bad that
> >
> > 	git-ls-remote --heads .
> > 	
> > is subtly different from
> >
> > 	git-ls-remote . refs/heads/
> >
> > so we have to provide the interface for specifying both.
> 
> Are they subtly different?  To me they look like asking for
> completely different things.  IIRC, the patterns are ref globs,
> so
> 
> 	git ls-remote $URL 'refs/heads/*'
> 
> would be the same as the former one.

Yes, though subtly different, as I've already explained before - for the case of say

	refs/remotes/evil/refs/heads

> Ah, that was the bug you were talking about on #git channel, I
> guess...

*nod*

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