From: Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 12:23:05 GMT
Subject: Re: partial globbing in fetch refspecs broken in v1.5.5
Message-ID: <20080517122304.GA3745@penelope.zusammrottung.local>
In-Reply-To: <20080517052212.GC18876@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:22:12AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 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

Ah.  I had found that commit, but not this discussion, thanks. 
I don't understand what the problem with packing the OP ran into with
his setup, though (see [1]).

> 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").

Which breakage?

Nikolaus

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/77381