* item uses the destination. To handle this, we apply pattern
* refspecs in reverse to figure out if the query source matches any
* of the negative refspecs.
+ *
+ * The first loop finds and expands all positive refspecs
+ * matched by the queried ref.
+ *
+ * The second loop checks if any of the results of the first loop
+ * match any negative refspec.
*/
for (i = 0; i < rs->nr; i++) {
struct refspec_item *refspec = &rs->items[i];
if (match_name_with_pattern(key, needle, value, &expn_name))
string_list_append_nodup(&reversed, expn_name);
- } else {
- if (!strcmp(needle, refspec->src))
- string_list_append(&reversed, refspec->src);
+ } else if (refspec->matching) {
+ /* For the special matching refspec, any query should match */
+ string_list_append(&reversed, needle);
+ } else if (!refspec->src) {
+ BUG("refspec->src should not be null here");
+ } else if (!strcmp(needle, refspec->src)) {
+ string_list_append(&reversed, refspec->src);
}
}