Re: partial globbing in fetch refspecs broken in v1.5.5
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 01:22:12 -0400
- From: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: partial globbing in fetch refspecs broken in v1.5.5
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:28:34PM +0200, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> the new refspec parser in v1.5.5 has also broken fetch uses like
>
> git fetch <url> +refs/heads/<foo>*:refs/remotes/<bar>*.
This was intentionally changed in ef00d150 (Tighten refspec processing).
There is some associated discussion in this thread:
http://mid.gmane.org/7vwso2ieuu.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
But I don't see any particular reason why this syntax should not be
allowed (besides, "it was never meant to be supported, so it was causing
other breakage").
-Peff
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