From: Jakub Narebski Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:27:00 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-fetch: do not use "*" for fetching multiple refs Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1165429001.993.35.camel@ibook.zvpunry.de> Michael Loeffler wrote: >> We could use perl for that, but embedded perl is a bit horrible. > > I had the same idea after the sed problems with macos/solaris, but > embedded perl is really a bit horrible. Or you can rewrite git-fetch in Perl (or as built-in in C). > I would prefer the following ways to do this globfetch stuff: > > 1.) The original refspec: > Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master > > 2.) The one with "prefix match": > Pull: refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/ I just worry what would happen when someone would write e.g. Pull: refs/heads/:refs/heads/origin- > 3.) The one with extended regex: > Pull: refs/heads/(.*):refs/remotes/origin/\1 3.) The one with shell-like (fnmatch / glob) globbing Pull: refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* By the way, with globbing we really need some other way than first Pull: line to select remote head to merge on "git pull". For example "Merge:" line / remote..merge config var. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git