if (!lock)
                return error("cannot lock ref '%s'", ref);
        log_file = git_pathdup("logs/%s", ref);
-       if (!file_exists(log_file))
+       if (!reflog_exists(ref))
                goto finish;
        if (!cmd->dry_run) {
                newlog_path = git_pathdup("logs/%s.lock", ref);
                return; /* both given explicitly -- nothing to tweak */
 
        for (ent = reflog_expire_cfg; ent; ent = ent->next) {
-               if (!fnmatch(ent->pattern, ref, 0)) {
+               if (!wildmatch(ent->pattern, ref, 0, NULL)) {
                        if (!(slot & EXPIRE_TOTAL))
                                cb->expire_total = ent->expire_total;
                        if (!(slot & EXPIRE_UNREACH))
                const char *arg = argv[i];
                if (!strcmp(arg, "--dry-run") || !strcmp(arg, "-n"))
                        cb.dry_run = 1;
-               else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--expire=")) {
+               else if (starts_with(arg, "--expire=")) {
                        if (parse_expiry_date(arg + 9, &cb.expire_total))
                                die(_("'%s' is not a valid timestamp"), arg);
                        explicit_expiry |= EXPIRE_TOTAL;
                }
-               else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--expire-unreachable=")) {
+               else if (starts_with(arg, "--expire-unreachable=")) {
                        if (parse_expiry_date(arg + 21, &cb.expire_unreachable))
                                die(_("'%s' is not a valid timestamp"), arg);
                        explicit_expiry |= EXPIRE_UNREACH;