From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85EBAC636D3 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229605AbjBKCmF (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:42:05 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:50800 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229589AbjBKCl7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:41:59 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net (cloud.peff.net [104.130.231.41]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B08222FCD6 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21880 invoked by uid 109); 11 Feb 2023 02:41:58 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:41:58 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 30565 invoked by uid 111); 11 Feb 2023 02:41:57 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:41:57 -0500 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:41:57 -0500 From: Jeff King To: Junio C Hamano Cc: William Blevins , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unexpected (bug-like) behavior in `git ls-remote` matching. Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 11:43:02AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > But I would hold off on all of that until somebody has a concrete case > > that shows why their preferred matching scheme is useful. > > True, too. Let's not forget to fix the documentation, though. Here's a brief series. [1/2]: doc/ls-remote: cosmetic cleanups for examples [2/2]: doc/ls-remote: clarify pattern format Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) -Peff