Re: [PATCH 0/5] Extend pattern refspecs

[Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> This series only supports the narrowest case of having the * in the middle
> of a side of a refspec: having it as a full path component on each side.
>
> Patches 1-3 centralize all of the parsing and matching rules to a pair of
> functions; patch 4 makes the stored representation more convenient (and
> serves as a distinguished bisection outcome for anything I missed that was
> relying on the contents of struct refspec for patterns); and patch 5
> extends the matching implementation and loosens the ref format
> requirements to allow the * to be in the middle.
>
> An easy followup would relax the restrictions further without requiring
> any particularly tricky further changes.

This series and js/remote-improvements (e5dcbfd) in pu may not get
along completely. "git remote show" tries to show how the refspecs
expand out. And actually, that should be fine since builtin-remote now
uses the same code as fetch/push to expand the refs.

However, "git remote show -n" (-n means don't query the remote) makes
use of a new function, get_push_ref_states_noquery(), which more or
less tries to reverse the parsed refspec back into the original
string. That function relies on the current (before your patch)
refspec semantics and assumes if refspec.pattern is set, then the '*'
is at the end. So it will need tweaking.

j.