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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> I'm not sure any older code actually enforced this, either

I am fairly sure the old code was written with the intention in mind (I
wrote it, in other words).  It meant to accept refs/<anything>/* and no
other wildcard.

Does your patch require * to be at the end?