Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-fetch: do not use "*" for fetching multiple refs

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Michael Loeffler wrote:

>> We could use perl for that, but embedded perl is a bit horrible.
>
> I had the same idea after the sed problems with macos/solaris, but
> embedded perl is really a bit horrible.

Or you can rewrite git-fetch in Perl (or as built-in in C).

> I would prefer the following ways to do this globfetch stuff:
> 
> 1.) The original refspec:
>     Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
> 
> 2.) The one with "prefix match":
>     Pull: refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/

I just worry what would happen when someone would write e.g.
      Pull: refs/heads/:refs/heads/origin-
 
> 3.) The one with extended regex:
>     Pull: refs/heads/(.*):refs/remotes/origin/\1

3.) The one with shell-like (fnmatch / glob) globbing
      Pull: refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

By the way, with globbing we really need some other way than
first Pull: line to select remote head to merge on "git pull".
For example "Merge:" line / remote.<name>.merge config var.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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