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

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2006, 19:48 UTC
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Michael Loeffler wrote:
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> The trailing / is enough to decide if this should map everything under
> refs/heads/ to refs/somewhere/.
> 
> The "*" should be reserved for the use as regex operator.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Loeffler <zvpunry@zvpunry.de>
> ---
> I want to use regular expressions to match remote refs, so I try to
> implement this. But the current globfetch syntax needs the '*'.
> 
> Maybe it is not to late to change the syntax to this:
> Pull: refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/
> 
> What do you think?

I'm not sure if regexp support is truly better than the usual path globbing, as in fnmatch / glob.

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