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 <redacted>
---
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
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1.7.12