Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] completion: fix bugs with slashes in remote names

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 14, 2025, 22:18 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo6y3dzno.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <c80d20d93c92422437150084f402ac36@mandelberg.org>

David Mandelberg <david@mandelberg.org> writes:

> +	__git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' 'refs/remotes/**' |

Just a bit of curiosity, but how would this be different from using

	__git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/remotes/

i.e. the prefix match, here? Does the wildmatcher clever enough to optimize "**" away and make it just to iterate over refs/remotes/ hierarchy without filtering anything?

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