Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-fetch: do not use "*" for fetching multiple refs

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 6, 2006, 23:21 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612070020580.28348@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <el6sni$re3$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Michael Loeffler wrote:
> 
> > Am Montag, den 04.12.2006, 20:48 +0100 schrieb Jakub Narebski:
> > ...
> >> I'm not sure if regexp support is truly better than the usual path globbing,
> >> as in fnmatch / glob.
> >
> > The current code does not do a real glob, this was the reason for me to
> > think about regex support, I thought it is easy to use sed for this. Now
> > I know it better.
> 
> We could use perl for that, but embedded perl is a bit horrible.

Not to talk about portable, and as we saw, dependent on the C compiler (you would have to make git compile with the same C compiler that perl was compiled with).

So, please look into other options first.

Ciao,