From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Adding glob support to remotes Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:04:20 +0000 Message-ID: <200611220904.21850.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:04:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=LWtnsWUdrjD7Gbh57NuM844LlH8ml6vQrm1SgwwvGOK3A+2hGe79W1IIIwbuW+YT78wfwIHok8jagwD0CcxGxUhJ8+AORpoJYEF4Hh6mveTMrWCWufSq6ozEyBQKhM4ahKatt/8xSkJK63t/35l5jDAUXKBFz8J+Qkmmoa4ruaA= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmo1v-000374-VA for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:04:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161991AbWKVJE2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:04:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161998AbWKVJE2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:04:28 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:16223 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161991AbWKVJE1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:04:27 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so98633uga for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:04:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.101.10 with SMTP id d10mr2688854ugm.1164186265613; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:04:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id e33sm10443938ugd.2006.11.22.01.04.24; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:04:25 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Hello, I'm working on adding (basic) glob support to remote fetch definitions. This is to allow you to write things like [remote "origin"] fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/upstream/* I started to add code to git-parse-remote.sh:canon_refs_list_for_fetch() to preprocess the reflist to catch lines with a "*" in them then use the remote pattern to filter the output of from "git-ls-remote -h", blah, blah, you get the idea... However, git-ls-remote needs the name of the remote repository (of course), but that isn't directly available in git-parse-remote.sh. Should I a) pass it as a parameter from git-fetch.sh right through each intermediate function b) create a global? c) change git-check-ref-format to allow "*" in the name, then put the git-ls-remote call in git-fetch instead. I don't like to do (b) as it's nasty programming behaviour; however passing a parameter is fairly intrusive to the existing code. Similarly (c) means I'm messing in places I suspect I shouldn't be (git-check-ref-format). git-gods - what do I do? Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE