gitolite/doc/refex.mkd
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## #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.
The only extra info you need is:
* for convenience, a refex not starting with `refs/` is assumed to start
with `refs/heads/`. This means normal branches can be referred to 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 `$` at the
end is assumed). So a refex of `master` will allow all these:
refs/heads/master
refs/heads/master1
refs/heads/master2
refs/heads/master/full
If you want to restrict to just the one specific ref, use
RW master$ = alice