Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-fetch: do not use "*" for fetching multiple refs

Michael Loeffler [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Just a thought.

I would prefer the following ways to do this globfetch stuff:

1.) The original refspec:
    Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

2.) The one with "prefix match":
    Pull: refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/

3.) The one with extended regex:
    Pull: refs/heads/(.*):refs/remotes/origin/\1

Please, don't do regex when talking about paths.  Uniformly
using fnmatch/glob is less confusing.  I do not see anything
wrong with Andy's refspec glob we already have.  Although I
agree that the second asterisk in "src/*:dst/*" has a certain
"Huh?" factor to UNIX-trained eyes, I think it is quite obvious
even to new people what it does.

Also, while I agree that (2) is logical and less typing, I would
avoid cases where foo and foo/ behave differently when "foo"
itself is a directory/tree like thing.  Doing otherwise easily
invites mistakes.