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Re: [RFC] Refspec patterns with * in the middle

From
Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 2, 2009, 22:07 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
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>> But the following is not:
>>
>>  - foo/bar*/baz
>>
>> IOW, '*' can only appear as a non-terminating symbol if it is bounded
>> by '/' on each side.
>
> You have my criterion right, but I want that to be valid, but only match
> things like "foo/bar-something/baz", not "foo/bar-a/b/baz".

Ah, that makes sense. Perhaps use "**" to mean matching across path components which is what rsync does:

 o  a '*' matches any non-empty path component (it stops at slashes).
 o  use '**' to match anything, including slashes.
?
j.
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  5. Daniel BarkalowMar 2, 2009
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