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borg2: Consider dropping fm: pattern type

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`fm:` could be dropped entirely if `sh:` was extended to support `sh:**x` as equivalent to `fm:*x`, where 'x' is anything other than '/', and a trailing '\*\*' as '\*\*/\*'. Existing `fm:` patterns could then be trivially converted by replacing '*' with '**'.

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