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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] git-tag: Add --regex option

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 4, 2009, 07:47 UTC
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Jake Goulding <goulding@vivisimo.com> writes:
> Allows the tag pattern to be expressed as a regular expression.

We use shell globs for refname throughout the system (not just tags). Why is this a good thing, other than "because we can"?

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