Repository wildcards
A repository wildcard is a regular expression that describes a whole range of possible repository names. For example, the line repo dev/alice/[a-z].* represents all repositories whose names start with dev/alice/, followed by an alphabetic character, followed optionally by anything else. The repository dev/alice/foo would qualify, but dev/alice/123 would not, nor would just dev/alice.
Tip
Due to the need to properly represent repositories such as gtk+ and c++, if the + character is the only regular expression metacharacter in the repo name, it will be taken to be a normal repository, not a repository wildcard. To specify foo.+, you should instead say foo..*. You can also say [f]oo.+—the presence of the bracket tells Gitolite ...
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