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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: William Blevins <wblevins001@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unexpected (bug-like) behavior in `git ls-remote` matching.
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 09:46:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqv8kcrqwc.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y+POvZLrtfm/qQwp@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 8 Feb 2023 11:33:01 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Oh, and I forgot to mention: the documentation for ls-remote is quite
> weak here, and simply says "matching" without defining it. So the most
> obvious improvement is fixing that documentation to describe the current
> rules (which AFAIK is basically matching the pattern as a glob, but with
> an implicit "/" anchor, but somebody should double check the code before
> writing a documentation patch).

Very much.  

On the pattern side we add */ in front of the given pattern (so,
'master' becomes "*/master", and 'refs/heads/master' becomes
'*/refs/heads/master), and run wildmatch() against refs prefixed
with '/' (so 'refs/heads/master' becomes '/refs/heads/master' and
matches '*/master', and it also matches '*/refs/heads/master').

THanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-08 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-07 23:03 Unexpected (bug-like) behavior in `git ls-remote` matching William Blevins
2023-02-08  7:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-08 13:49   ` William Blevins
2023-02-08 14:51     ` Philip Oakley
2023-02-08 16:30     ` Jeff King
2023-02-08 16:33       ` Jeff King
2023-02-08 17:46         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-02-08 17:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-09 13:15         ` Jeff King
2023-02-09 19:43           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-11  2:41             ` Jeff King
2023-02-11  2:44               ` [PATCH 1/2] doc/ls-remote: cosmetic cleanups for examples Jeff King
2023-02-11  2:44               ` [PATCH 2/2] doc/ls-remote: clarify pattern format Jeff King
2023-02-11  2:54                 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-11  4:52                   ` [PATCH v2 " Jeff King
2023-02-08 14:08 ` Unexpected (bug-like) behavior in `git ls-remote` matching Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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