[PATCH v4 6/6] ls-remote doc: document the output format
From: Sean Allred via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2023-05-19 04:18:43
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
From: Sean Allred <redacted> While well-established, the output format of ls-remote was not actually documented. This patch adds an OUTPUT section to the documentation following the format of git-show-ref.txt (which has similar semantics). Add a basic example immediately after this to solidify the 'normal' output format. Signed-off-by: Sean Allred <redacted> --- Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
index c0b2facef48..1c4f696ab57 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt@@ -96,9 +96,35 @@ OPTIONS separator (so `bar` matches `refs/heads/bar` but not `refs/heads/foobar`). +OUTPUT +------ + +The output is in the format: + +------------ +<oid> TAB <ref> LF +------------ + +When showing an annotated tag, unless `--refs` is given, two such +lines are shown: one with the refname for the tag itself as `<ref>`, +and another with `<ref>` followed by `^{}`. The `<oid>` on the latter +line shows the name of the object the tag points at. + EXAMPLES -------- +* List all references (including symbolics and pseudorefs), peeling + tags: ++ +---- +$ git ls-remote +27d43aaaf50ef0ae014b88bba294f93658016a2e HEAD +950264636c68591989456e3ba0a5442f93152c1a refs/heads/main +d9ab777d41f92a8c1684c91cfb02053d7dd1046b refs/heads/next +d4ca2e3147b409459955613c152220f4db848ee1 refs/tags/v2.40.0 +73876f4861cd3d187a4682290ab75c9dccadbc56 refs/tags/v2.40.0^{} +---- + * List all references matching given patterns: + ----
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