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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2023-02-23 01:55:45 +0300
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2023-02-23 01:55:45 +0300
commit6aac634f818a35414c7541d86039e29aa0aa7562 (patch)
tree6bcf9d7fdd9c28b5a8de1053ccb9a5596ac8f1e2
parenta42d69ee5beacd163229e5dd8c94be85431d6c85 (diff)
parentd9ec3b0dc0fe51b4e56df5a809d3a1f8d83b89eb (diff)
Merge branch 'jk/doc-ls-remote-matching'
Doc update. * jk/doc-ls-remote-matching: doc/ls-remote: clarify pattern format doc/ls-remote: cosmetic cleanups for examples
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt19
-rw-r--r--builtin/ls-remote.c2
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
index 492e573856..ff3da547dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[verse]
'git ls-remote' [--heads] [--tags] [--refs] [--upload-pack=<exec>]
[-q | --quiet] [--exit-code] [--get-url] [--sort=<key>]
- [--symref] [<repository> [<refs>...]]
+ [--symref] [<repository> [<patterns>...]]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -85,25 +85,32 @@ OPTIONS
either a URL or the name of a remote (see the GIT URLS and
REMOTES sections of linkgit:git-fetch[1]).
-<refs>...::
+<patterns>...::
When unspecified, all references, after filtering done
- with --heads and --tags, are shown. When <refs>... are
- specified, only references matching the given patterns
- are displayed.
+ with --heads and --tags, are shown. When <patterns>... are
+ specified, only references matching one or more of the given
+ patterns are displayed. Each pattern is interpreted as a glob
+ (see `glob` in linkgit:gitglossary[7]) which is matched against
+ the "tail" of a ref, starting either from the start of the ref
+ (so a full name like `refs/heads/foo` matches) or from a slash
+ separator (so `bar` matches `refs/heads/bar` but not
+ `refs/heads/foobar`).
EXAMPLES
--------
----
-$ git ls-remote --tags ./.
+$ git ls-remote --tags .
d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a refs/tags/v0.99
f25a265a342aed6041ab0cc484224d9ca54b6f41 refs/tags/v0.99.1
7ceca275d047c90c0c7d5afb13ab97efdf51bd6e refs/tags/v0.99.3
c5db5456ae3b0873fc659c19fafdde22313cc441 refs/tags/v0.99.2
0918385dbd9656cab0d1d81ba7453d49bbc16250 refs/tags/junio-gpg-pub
+
$ git ls-remote http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git master seen rc
5fe978a5381f1fbad26a80e682ddd2a401966740 refs/heads/master
c781a84b5204fb294c9ccc79f8b3baceeb32c061 refs/heads/seen
+
$ git remote add korg http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
$ git ls-remote --tags korg v\*
d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a refs/tags/v0.99
diff --git a/builtin/ls-remote.c b/builtin/ls-remote.c
index 5d5ac03871..6516177348 100644
--- a/builtin/ls-remote.c
+++ b/builtin/ls-remote.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
static const char * const ls_remote_usage[] = {
N_("git ls-remote [--heads] [--tags] [--refs] [--upload-pack=<exec>]\n"
" [-q | --quiet] [--exit-code] [--get-url] [--sort=<key>]\n"
- " [--symref] [<repository> [<refs>...]]"),
+ " [--symref] [<repository> [<patterns>...]]"),
NULL
};