Re: [PATCH] Documentation: improve description of --glob=pattern and friends

Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:

Consolidate the descriptions of --branches, --tags and --remotes a
bit, to make it less repetitive.  Improve the grammar a bit, and spell
out the meaning of the 'append /*' rule.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <redacted>
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Compared to the earlier draft, I changed "it is anchored" (by
appending '/*') to "it is turned into a prefix match", since this is
not anchoring in the ^regex$ sense.  (I guess 'leading-component
match' would be even more accurate, but that makes the sentence
unwieldy in my ears.)

By the way, we may someday want to change that to do FNM_PATHNAME instead
of just a flat glob.

Incidentally, that is why I prefer the earlier suggestion to do "check
with memcmp() if it is a path-prefix, and if it fails, then give
fnmatch(FNM_PATHNAME) a chance".  That way, we don't have to say "by
appending '/*'" (which is an implementation detail we can change).

It seems that the suggestion was ignored, though.