On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:22:12AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > 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 Ah. I had found that commit, but not this discussion, thanks. I don't understand what the problem with packing the OP ran into with his setup, though (see [1]). > 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"). Which breakage? Nikolaus [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/77381 -- 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
