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