Re: partial globbing in fetch refspecs broken in v1.5.5

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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:28:34PM +0200, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:

> the new refspec parser in v1.5.5 has also broken fetch uses like
> 
>     git fetch <url> +refs/heads/<foo>*:refs/remotes/<bar>*. 

This was intentionally changed in ef00d150 (Tighten refspec processing).
There is some associated discussion in this thread:

  http://mid.gmane.org/7vwso2ieuu.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

But I don't see any particular reason why this syntax should not be
allowed (besides, "it was never meant to be supported, so it was causing
other breakage").

-Peff
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