git-ls-remote(1) says that ls-remote supports filtering by reference  

But when I try to use the <refs> argument on a current build of git  
(git version v1.5.3.7-1112-g9758ecd), I just get its usage message,  


ls-remote was recently made a builtin; was reference filtering  
deliberately removed, or was it just lost in translation from the  
shell script?

Eyvind Bernhardsen

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I suspect that to be the case.  Daniel, I think this is yours.
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Ah, sure enough. I didn't see that feature there, I guess. Am I right that 
it's supposed to have "git ls-remote origin db/*" return refs of the 
form "*/db/*", interpreted as for globs?

Eyvind: can I get a test case? I haven't ever used this feature, and I'm 
not sure I'll implement it correctly.

	-Daniel
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I've noticed that a fix made it to master already; that's fast work by  
you and Junio!  Unfortunately, it fails the test case I was going to  
suggest, which is the one in the ls-remote manpage (see my response in  
the patch thread).

I haven't used the ref matching for anything (yet), so I don't have  
any other test cases.

Eyvind Bernhardsen

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