See #9 (comment)
tldr is that folks who have to manage lots of repos often want to target more than one at a time without having to manually list out each repo. For example:
org/*
org/prefix-*
org/*-suffix
*/forked-name
*/* (or *)
(Also, glob negations - a ! at the front of any glob)
Folks who don't need this functionality simply won't provide an asterisk or a leading bang, and folks who do will have it intuitively work just like gitignore, npmignore, eslint overrides, etc.