From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 05:22:12 GMT
Subject: Re: partial globbing in fetch refspecs broken in v1.5.5
Message-ID: <20080517052212.GC18876@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080516212833.GA5366@penelope.zusammrottung.local>

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:28:34PM +0200, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:

> the new refspec parser in v1.5.5 has also broken fetch uses like
> 
>     git fetch <url> +refs/heads/<foo>*:refs/remotes/<bar>*. 

This was intentionally changed in ef00d150 (Tighten refspec processing).
There is some associated discussion in this thread:

  http://mid.gmane.org/7vwso2ieuu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org

But I don't see any particular reason why this syntax should not be
allowed (besides, "it was never meant to be supported, so it was causing
other breakage").

-Peff