Where has "git ls-remote" reference pattern matching gone?

From: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind-git@orakel.ntnu.no>
Date: Dec 8, 2007, 22:05 UTC
Message-ID: <4E5E5B1E-A303-45C9-9944-57D54FD50F80@orakel.ntnu.no>

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

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> SYNOPSIS
>        git-ls-remote [--heads] [--tags]  [-u <exec> | --upload-pack  
> <exec>]
>                      <repository> <refs>...
>
> [...]
>
>        <refs>...
>               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.
>
> [...]
>
>        $ git ls-remote --tags public v\*
>        d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a        refs/tags/v0.99
>        f25a265a342aed6041ab0cc484224d9ca54b6f41        refs/tags/ 
> v0.99.1
>        c5db5456ae3b0873fc659c19fafdde22313cc441        refs/tags/ 
> v0.99.2
>        7ceca275d047c90c0c7d5afb13ab97efdf51bd6e        refs/tags/ 
> v0.99.3

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, which doesn't mention that argument:

> vredefort:[backup]% git ls-remote origin foob
> usage: git-ls-remote [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>]  
> [<host>:]<directory>

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