From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:15:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore ls-remote reference pattern matching
Message-ID: <7vmysjpwdq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071209162632.a16bfd6e.vsu@altlinux.ru>

Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> writes:

> This still does not match the behavior of the old shell implementation
> completely - because $pat was not quoted, shell pattern characters in
> $pat worked, and things like "git ls-remote . 'refs/heads/something--*'"
> were possible (and used in some of my scripts), so a full fnmatch()
> call is still needed.

Ah, true.  I wanted to cheat but that was a mistake.