From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:47:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] git-tag: Add --regex option
Message-ID: <7vljsm3aow.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1233677512-1846-1-git-send-email-goulding@vivisimo.com>

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"?