Re: [PATCH v2] rev-parse --namespace

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:06:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Ilari Liusvaara [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

..., if matching power would be extended,
probably the easiest extension would be full-blown extended regular
expressions.

As refs behave like a filesystem path and we try to use fnmatch() for
anything that behave like a filesystem path, that would break consistency.

Eh, remind me what commands take refs and shell-glob them? The only
'globbing' of refs I'm aware of is in refspecs, and that definitely isn't
shell globbing...

-Ilari