From: Monte Goulding <monte@sweattechnologies.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:32:26 GMT
Subject: Refspec wildcards for remotes require trailing slash
Message-ID: <3B290FD1-EF2B-4419-8845-45C5A3B4A3D3@sweattechnologies.com>


Hi

I came across this issue the other day while trying to optimise a fetch to a repo with release branches named release-X.X.X. I wanted to just fetch just those branches but because of the trailing slash rule I couldn't. The following StackOverflow post has details of the issue:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20450003/is-it-possible-to-use-filters-in-refspec-in-places-other-than-directory-namespac

The trailing slash rule appears to be introduced in 46220ca and further tightened in b2a5627

Before I go ahead and look at what needs to be done for a patch I thought it would be polite to ask if there is any reasoning behind the trailing slash rule that I'm missing? Or if you are interested in changing this behavior at all.

Cheers

Monte