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Improve documentation of RegExp in CI/CD job ref patterns

Raphael Das Gupta requested to merge das-g/gitlab-ce:patch-49 into master

What does this MR do?

  • correct one example of RegExp use for matching ref names in CI/CD job definitions
  • add some more notes and tips for how RegExp behave in that context

Why?

The current documentation was misleading w.r.t. that topic, especially when the patterns also include a repo path. See

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