From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:30:29 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Refspec patterns with * in the middle Message-ID: <7vsklvlcyy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Daniel Barkalow writes: > The issue, in my case, is importing from a system where branches contain > projects instead of projects containing branches (and everything is a > single namespace). So I want to match an insane (for us) LHS with a sane > RHS to get stuff into reasonable shape. I don't really care about any > patterns where the branch identifier is multiple components, but I > wouldn't be surprised if somebody did. Isn't this just getting more and more insane? Is this really worth supporting, I have to wonder... > Oh, and it looks like "?" is reserved and currently unused, so we could > have * match one or more full path components, and ? match partial path > components. Well, "?" is not allowed exactly because it often is used to match a single character by things like for-each-ref.