From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 01:23:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] refs: extract function to normalize partial refs
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In-Reply-To: <4dc4eefc-56b9-1b13-ae46-83a3af9c7ee3@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> [1] I say "almost entirely" because putting them in one function means
> that only `pattern` needs to be scanned for glob characters. But that is
> an unimportant detail.

That could actually be an important detail, in that even if prefix
has wildcard, we'd still append the trailing "/*" as long as the
pattern does not, right?