## #refex matching a ref and a refex A refex is a word I made up to mean "a regex that matches a ref". If you know [regular expressions][regex] you're halfway there. In addition: * if no refex is supplied, it defaults to `refs/.*`, for example in a rule like this: RW = alice * a refex not starting with `refs/` is assumed to start with `refs/heads/`. This means normal branches can be conveniently written like this: RW master = alice # becomes 'refs/heads/master' internally while tags will need to be fully qualified RW refs/tags/v[0-9] = bob * a refex is implicitly anchored at the start, but not at the end. In regular expression lingo, a `^` is assumed at the start (but no `$` at the end is assumed). So a refex of `master` will match all these: refs/heads/master refs/heads/master1 refs/heads/master2 refs/heads/master/full If you want to restrict the match to just the one specific ref, use RW master$ = alice