How to config gerrit refs in Zsh?

Question

In my team, we use gerrit for code review.

As you know, gerrit uses the magical 'refs/for/*'.

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Since I do not want to type

git push origin HEAD:refs/for/*

every time I push to remote,

I tried to change my git repository's config like below.

git config remote.origin.push refs/heads/*:refs/for/*

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Changing config works well in bash,

but it fails in my zsh with an error like below.

zsh: no matches found: refs/heads/*:refs/for/*

I think that using an asterisk in zsh is somewhat different with bash,

but I cannot know exactly what the problem is.

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How can I solve this problem? or impossible in zsh?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

By default when bash fails to glob it puts the whole pattern into the arguments unchanged. When zsh fails to glob it does not run command at all which I find more convenient in most cases. Both shells can be configured, zsh has at least three other modes: do like bash, remove pattern from arguments and remove pattern from arguments unless there are no patterns with match. These behaviors are achieved by unsetting NOMATCH or setting CSH_NULL_GLOB or NULL_GLOB respectively.

I would suggest keeping current behavior and using various escaping methods: 'refs/heads/*:refs/for/*' (double quotes also work) or refs/heads/\*:refs/for/\*.