On Tue,  6 Feb 2018 17:12:51 -0800
Brandon Williams [off-list ref] wrote:

+extern struct ref **get_remote_refs(int fd_out, struct packet_reader *reader,
+				    struct ref **list, int for_push,
+				    const struct argv_array *ref_patterns);

I haven't looked at the rest of this patch in detail, but the type of
ref_patterns is probably better as struct string_list, since this is not
a true argument array (e.g. with flags starting with --). Same comment
for the next few patches that deal with ref patterns.