> I thought it might be nice for any porcelain which tries to wrap > `ls-remote`, make some decision based on the capabilities, and then > invoke another plumbing command. But I guess that is probably slightly > crazy, and nobody is doing it. > > Something like `ls-remote --symrefs` probably would be a better place to > start. Turns out adding this is pretty simple. The first two patches are documentation, which I noticed when reading up about the command. Patch three is a cleanup patch, which makes ls-remote use the parse-options api instead of the hand-rolled option parser. Patch four is actually adding the option. Thomas Gummerer (4): ls-remote: document --quiet option ls-remote: fix synopsis ls-remote: use parse-options api ls-remote: add support for showing symrefs Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt | 12 +++++- builtin/ls-remote.c | 90 +++++++++++++++++------------------------ t/t5512-ls-remote.sh | 20 +++++++++ 3 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) -- 2.7.0.14.g2b6d3d6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html