From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:14:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG} git-fetch - won't fetch wildcarded tags
Message-ID: <7vd4xur9m0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <46BD25FC.1050201@verizon.net>

Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@verizon.net> writes:

> git>git fetch /tmp/foo 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
> * refusing to create funny ref 'tags/*' locally

I think fetch's wildcard is effective only in the config file,
and this is not just tags.  It would be nice if you could say

	$ git fetch foo.bndl 'refs/*:refs/*'