From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 23:15:59 GMT
Subject: Re: how to fetch entire heirarchy of refs from a remote?
Message-ID: <xmqqpoxd2d74.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xqexsOma5c9NfS5ma333UJV=5i1a4GhnwZuU75eaxRd=Q@mail.gmail.com>

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> refs/changes/98/47298/3
> refs/changes/98/57298/1
> refs/changes/98/57298/2
> refs/changes/98/73598/1
> refs/changes/99/44099/1
> refs/changes/99/69299/1
>
>
> Is it possible to specify a refspec such that all of these will be
> fetched? I tried doing
>
> +refs/changes/*:refs/changes/*
>
> but this doesn't work since the * can only be one portion of a refspec

I am not sure if I follow.  With refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
(e.g. following git://github.com/gitster/git for example), I am
reasonably sure you would get my refs/heads/jk/notes-dwim-doc and
other topics you authored without the slash between jk and
notes-dwim-doc getting in the way.