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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> Is "refs/*:refs/*" (mirror everything, including weird stuff) supposed to 
> be prohibited?

No.  In fact "remote add --mirror" actively creates such.  See my other
message about design level issues.

>> Does your patch require * to be at the end?
>
> Looks like it just ignores anything after a *. Want checks for that as 
> well?

Surely.  Starting strict and making it looser later is much easier than
starting loose and incoherent and having to deal with the resulting mess
the code appears to allow people to make in their configuration.