ls-remote: add support for showing symrefs

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
index 2e22915eb857bd960f09afc725107198642bfd22..5f2628c8f86a65b0bfe8e29995fa2176927a30f0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ git-ls-remote - List references in a remote repository
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git ls-remote' [--heads] [--tags]  [-u <exec> | --upload-pack <exec>]
-             [--exit-code] <repository> [<refs>...]
+'git ls-remote' [--heads] [--tags] [--refs] [--upload-pack=<exec>]
+             [-q | --quiet] [--exit-code] [--get-url]
+             [--symref] [<repository> [<refs>...]]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -29,7 +30,13 @@ OPTIONS
        both, references stored in refs/heads and refs/tags are
        displayed.
 
--u <exec>::
+--refs::
+       Do not show peeled tags or pseudorefs like HEAD in the output.
+
+-q::
+--quiet::
+       Do not print remote URL to stderr.
+
 --upload-pack=<exec>::
        Specify the full path of 'git-upload-pack' on the remote
        host. This allows listing references from repositories accessed via
@@ -47,6 +54,12 @@ OPTIONS
        "url.<base>.insteadOf" config setting (See linkgit:git-config[1]) and
        exit without talking to the remote.
 
+--symref::
+       In addition to the object pointed by it, show the underlying
+       ref pointed by it when showing a symbolic ref.  Currently,
+       upload-pack only shows the symref HEAD, so it will be the only
+       one shown by ls-remote.
+
 <repository>::
        The "remote" repository to query.  This parameter can be
        either a URL or the name of a remote (see the GIT URLS and