Re: support comma-separated fetch specs list?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 4, 2020, 05:41 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1rh9ptka.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAKkAvaxrG0aYw-wo_WW7zSkX=mjU8ABgXGbbPCFOhMBa4WTJ+Q@mail.gmail.com>

ryenus <ryenus@gmail.com> writes:

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> It's nice to have negative ref spec support with 2.29 release, so now
> we can have
>
> ```
> [remote "origin"]
>   fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
>   fetch = ^refs/heads/gh-pages
> ```
>
> What about having all the fetch specs put together in one comma-separated list?
> Like this:
>
> ```
> [remote "origin"]
>   fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*,^refs/heads/gh-pages
> ```

I thought comma was a valid character that you can have in refnames, so no, I do not think it would fly without breaking existing users.

What problem are you trying to solve?