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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:57:34 +0100
From: Olof Johansson <olof.johansson@axis.com>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch2/git: Anchor names when using ls-remote
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On 14-01-20 16:21 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> When specifying tags, they're searched for unanchored so foo/bar could
> match:
> 
> refs/heads/abc/foo/bar
> refs/heads/xyz/foo/bar
> refs/heads/foo/bar
> 
> This change anchors the expressions so they are based against heads
> or tags (or any other base level tree that has been created).

Afaict, ls-remote matches the wildcard character against any
character, including /.

$ git ls-remote gittest refs/*/foo/bar
69ab4bdbb5f3725ca594a2abdb636ee8fc25e1c4        refs/tags/abc/foo/bar
c8647b027d88af180e90d842577518b73ef6a167        refs/tags/foo/bar
149c3c329515086af1ae4e24b12b17100ae16256        refs/tags/xyz/foo/bar

-- 
olofjn