From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikolaus Schulz Subject: Re: partial globbing in fetch refspecs broken in v1.5.5 Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:23:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20080517122304.GA3745@penelope.zusammrottung.local> References: <20080516212833.GA5366@penelope.zusammrottung.local> <20080517052212.GC18876@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 17 14:24:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JxLSD-0004Y0-4V for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 14:24:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753435AbYEQMXL (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 08:23:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753410AbYEQMXK (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 08:23:10 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:37629 "EHLO fmmailgate01.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753429AbYEQMXJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 08:23:09 -0400 Received: from smtp07.web.de (fmsmtp07.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.215]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 105FEDF60463 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 14:23:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [83.125.40.75] (helo=tunichtgut.zusammrottung.local) by smtp07.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1JxLRL-0000XV-00 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 14:23:08 +0200 Received: from penelope.zusammrottung.local ([192.168.178.202]) by tunichtgut.zusammrottung.local with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JxLRK-0005gq-AS for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 14:23:06 +0200 Received: from nikolaus by penelope.zusammrottung.local with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JxLRJ-00017r-10 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 14:23:05 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080517052212.GC18876@sigill.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Sender: microschulz@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX190C2CVBRCxKTyHk3wjy+YfcB6y9j32QzY5K3Mt Z1V7Gu6klcV64NpDVtdpjv23eO9srVphdxN7hZpTWOdbpX3vX6 rg8USGNP0= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:22:12AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > 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 +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/*. > > This was intentionally changed in ef00d150 (Tighten refspec processing). > There is some associated discussion in this thread: > > http://mid.gmane.org/7vwso2ieuu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org Ah. I had found that commit, but not this discussion, thanks. I don't understand what the problem with packing the OP ran into with his setup, though (see [1]). > 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"). Which breakage? Nikolaus [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/77381