Michael Loeffler wrote: >> We could use perl for that, but embedded perl is a bit horrible. > > I had the same idea after the sed problems with macos/solaris, but > embedded perl is really a bit horrible. Or you can rewrite git-fetch in Perl (or as built-in in C). > 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/ I just worry what would happen when someone would write e.g. Pull: refs/heads/:refs/heads/origin- > 3.) The one with extended regex: > Pull: refs/heads/(.*):refs/remotes/origin/\1 3.) The one with shell-like (fnmatch / glob) globbing Pull: refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* By the way, with globbing we really need some other way than first Pull: line to select remote head to merge on "git pull". For example "Merge:" line / remote.<name>.merge config var. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html