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

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-08-11 20:34:42 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7692175
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7692175/t.md

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Michael Loeffler [ref] writes:

>> 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.

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