partial globbing in fetch refspecs broken in v1.5.5

[Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@xxxxxx>]

Hi, 

the new refspec parser in v1.5.5 has also broken fetch uses like

    git fetch <url> +refs/heads/<foo>*:refs/remotes/<bar>*. 

Such a refspec works like a charm with git 1.5.4.  In case the usefulness of
such a refspec isn't obvious, here's my use case.  I want to track several
remotes, and in particular a selection of branches from one remote repository,
which has the following branches[1]: 

  HEAD
  candidate
  candidate+patches
  debian-experimental
  debian-sarge
  debian-sid
  maint
  master
  release
  release+patches

With git 1.5.4, I can add the following to .git/config

[remote "debian"]
        url = http://smarden.org/git/git.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/debian-*:refs/remotes/debian/*

...and it will work just like '%'-style pattern matching in Makefiles, e.g.
the remote branch debian-sid becomes remotes/debian/sid.  I find that very
natural; but git v1.5.5 rejects this refspec as invalid.  

I am just a beginner with git, and I do not know if there is any problem with
such a use of refspecs.  But if not, I would like to beg the maintainers to
consider restoring this functionality.

Nikolaus

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