Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Victor Leschuk <vleschuk@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > + branches = branches/release_*:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/release_* > > Hmph, if you are going this route, I wonder if there is a reason to > limit yourself only to "prefix". Would allowing something like this: > > branches = branches/pre*post:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/* > > i.e., loosening the rule to allow at most one asterisk anywhere on > the left hand side of the colon, and require the same number of > asterisks as the left hand side has on the right hand side of the > colon, be too lax and hurt the users? Seems doable. Not sure about the consequences, yet... I also think the $1 truthiness check was unnecessary and even problematic if we need to encounter a "0" as a path component. And using the path component will need to be quoted as we do below with the brace case (showing with diff -U6) Perhaps this? (untested) diff --git a/perl/Git/SVN/GlobSpec.pm b/perl/Git/SVN/GlobSpec.pm index a136090..7961a78 100644 --- a/perl/Git/SVN/GlobSpec.pm +++ b/perl/Git/SVN/GlobSpec.pm @@ -12,16 +12,17 @@ sub new { "(e.g. '*' or '*/*/*') is supported: '$glob'\n"; for my $part (split(m|/|, $glob)) { if ($pattern_ok && $part =~ /[{}]/ && $part !~ /^\{[^{}]+\}/) { die "Invalid pattern in '$glob': $part\n"; } - if ($part =~ /(\w*)\*/) { + if ($part =~ /(\w*)\*(\w*)/) { + my ($l, $r) = ($1, $2); die $die_msg if $state eq "right"; $state = "pattern"; - my $pat = $1 ? "${1}[^/]+" : "[^/]*"; + my $pat = quotemeta($l) . '[^/]*'. quotemeta($r); push(@patterns, $pat); } elsif ($pattern_ok && $part =~ /^\{(.*)\}$/) { die $die_msg if $state eq "right"; $state = "pattern"; my $p = quotemeta($1); $p =~ s/\\,/|/g; -- EW -- 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