From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:57:08 GMT
Subject: Re: tracking repository
Message-ID: <7vwso2gwnf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803161716470.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> I'm not sure any older code actually enforced this, either

I am fairly sure the old code was written with the intention in mind (I
wrote it, in other words).  It meant to accept refs/<anything>/* and no
other wildcard.

Does your patch require * to be at the end?