From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:30:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Find main branch
Message-ID: <xmqq1t9ikaxb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160114211335.GB10825@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> It would be nice if "git ls-remote" just had some way of printing the
> capabilities.

I would agree that it would be nice to give an option to ls-remote
to show which ones are symrefs pointing at what.  You are being more
ambitious than that, but I am not sure I would agree it is a good
idea.

Most normal capabilities have no value to ordinary end users, and
the symref= thing is interesting for them only because there isn't
such an option in ls-remote (hence "capabilities" thing could be
used as a poor-man's substitute).