From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:33:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/35] ls-refs: introduce ls-refs server command
Message-ID: <xmqqk1uzqt3d.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180224040149.GA16743@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I actually wonder if we should just specify that the patterns must
> _always_ be fully-qualified, but may end with a single "/*" to iterate
> over wildcards. Or even simpler, that "refs/heads/foo" would find that
> ref itself, and anything under it.
>
> That drops any question about how wildcards work (e.g., does "refs/foo*"
> work to find "refs/foobar"?).

Sounds quite sensible to me.