Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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**' That is one of the things covered by "or something", and I deliberately left it like so because all the good things that can happen "In future version" are irrelevant at the present _unless_ the required first step you omitted from your quote is not done properly, and I didn't want to invite people to derail the discussion into such a tangent that does not yet have any value. Please don't. -- 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