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Add caveat that the minimum expansion of RE must be a valid ref

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Doug Claar
2016-03-18 14:43:28 -07:00
committed by David Ostrovsky
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@@ -222,7 +222,10 @@ is a wildcard matching any character, but may be escaped as `\.`.
The link:http://www.brics.dk/automaton/[dk.brics.automaton library]
is used for evaluation of regular expression access control
rules. See the library documentation for details on this
particular regular expression flavor.
particular regular expression flavor. One quirk is that the
shortest possible pattern expansion must be a valid ref name:
thus `^refs/heads/.*/name` will fail because `refs/heads//name`
is not a valid reference, but `^refs/heads/.+/name` will work.
References can have the current user name automatically included,
creating dynamic access controls that change to match the currently