From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 15:31:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] fetch: reduce duplicate in ref update status lines with placeholder
Message-ID: <xmqqvb0ubqcw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cT=BAuAbEmS5G1v2yGNczA+-WvW0bBZz_hrLcYi0bpO4g@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> In my brain, at least, '$' is associated so strongly with regex that
> "origin/$" is interpreted automatically as anchoring "origin/" at the
> end of string, and "refs/$/head" just feels weird.
>
> On the other hand, given the familiarity of shell globbing, "origin/*"
> and "refs/*/head" feel quite natural and intuitive.

I had the same thought ;-)