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[PATCH] ls-remote: document the '--get-url' option

From
Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 6, 2012, 17:27 UTC
Message-ID
<1346952441-20666-1-git-send-email-stefan.naewe@gmail.com>

While looking for a way to expand the URL of a remote that uses a 'url.<name>.insteadOf' config option I stumbled over the undocumented '--get-url' option of 'git ls-remote'. This adds some minimum documentation for that option.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
index 7a9b86a..5819ead 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	it successfully talked with the remote repository, whether it
 	found any matching refs.
 
+--get-url::
+	Expand the URL of the given remote repository taking into account any 
+	"url.<base>.insteadOf" config setting (See linkgit:git-config[1]).
+
 <repository>::
 	Location of the repository.  The shorthand defined in
 	$GIT_DIR/branches/ can be used. Use "." (dot) to list references in
-- 
1.7.12
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