[PATCH 0/5] Extend pattern refspecs

This series only supports the narrowest case of having the * in the middle 
of a side of a refspec: having it as a full path component on each side.

Patches 1-3 centralize all of the parsing and matching rules to a pair of 
functions; patch 4 makes the stored representation more convenient (and 
serves as a distinguished bisection outcome for anything I missed that was 
relying on the contents of struct refspec for patterns); and patch 5 
extends the matching implementation and loosens the ref format 
requirements to allow the * to be in the middle.

An easy followup would relax the restrictions further without requiring 
any particularly tricky further changes.

Daniel Barkalow (5):
  Make clone parse the default fetch refspec with the regular code
  Use a single function to match names against patterns
  Use the matching function to generate the match results
  Keep '*' in pattern refspecs
  Support '*' in the middle of a refspec

 builtin-clone.c    |   25 ++++++++--------
 refs.c             |   15 +++++----
 remote.c           |   78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 t/t5511-refspec.sh |   12 ++++++++
 4 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)