Re: [RFC] Refspec patterns with * in the middle

Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

My use case is actually, more precisely:

some/constant/stuff/$PROJ-$NUMBER/junk/my-proj

Where $NUMBER is the version number, and $PROJ is usually, but not quite 
always "my-proj"; the exception being that it might be effectively a 
superproject. So I'd like to have:

 fetch = some/constant/stuff/my-proj-*/junk/my-proj:refs/remotes/origin/*

... and expect "some/constant/stuff/my-proj-2.5/junk/my-proj" to be mapped
to "refs/remotes/origin/2.5"?  I think it does not look too bad.

But I can live with remote branches like "my-proj-2.4" instead of "2.4".

I think it would make sense, and limit typo damage, to say that the * can 
only expand to something with a '/' in it if the star has a slash or the 
end of the string on each side.

I do not understand what you mean by "* can only expand to something with
a '/' in it if ..." part.  None of the examples in your message have a
case where the asterisk matches across directory boundaries, and I thought
you would simply say "* does not match /" and be done with that.

What scenario do you have in mind that wants to match a slash with an
asterisk?