Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
In a future versions, we may want to have "branch/tag --list" also ask for
FNM_PATHNAME (this *is* a backward incompatible change, so it needs to be
performed across major version boundary, with backward compatibility
configurations, deprecation warnings and whole nine yards). Under the new
match function, today's "branch --list 'maint*'" needs to be spelled as
"branch --list 'maint*/*'" or something.
Or "branch --list 'maint**'
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Jakub Narebski