From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:44:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rev-parse --namespace
Message-ID: <20100119214400.GA24911@Knoppix>
In-Reply-To: <7v3a21amh7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:06:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> writes:
> 
> > ..., if matching power would be extended,
> > probably the easiest extension would be full-blown extended regular
> > expressions.
> 
> As refs behave like a filesystem path and we try to use fnmatch() for
> anything that behave like a filesystem path, that would break consistency.

Eh, remind me what commands take refs and shell-glob them? The only
'globbing' of refs I'm aware of is in refspecs, and that definitely isn't
shell globbing...

-Ilari