Reteach builtin-ls-remote to understand remotes

Prior to being made a builtin git-ls-remote understood that when
it was given a remote name we wanted it to resolve that to the
pre-configured URL and connect to that location.  That changed when
it was converted to a builtin and many of my automation tools broke.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 57 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-ls-remote.c b/builtin-ls-remote.c
index 003580c26..56f3f8802 100644
--- a/builtin-ls-remote.c
+++ b/builtin-ls-remote.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ int cmd_ls_remote(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	unsigned flags = 0;
 	const char *uploadpack = NULL;
 
+	struct remote *remote;
 	struct transport *transport;
 	const struct ref *ref;
 
@@ -52,7 +53,10 @@ int cmd_ls_remote(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (!dest || i != argc - 1)
 		usage(ls_remote_usage);
 
-	transport = transport_get(NULL, dest);
+	remote = nongit ? NULL : remote_get(dest);
+	if (remote && !remote->url_nr)
+		die("remote %s has no configured URL", dest);
+	transport = transport_get(remote, remote ? remote->url[0] : dest);
 	if (uploadpack != NULL)
 		transport_set_option(transport, TRANS_OPT_UPLOADPACK, uploadpack);
 
diff --git a/t/t5512-ls-remote.sh b/t/t5512-ls-remote.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..6ec5f7c48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t5512-ls-remote.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='git ls-remote'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success setup '
+
+	>file &&
+	git add file &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git commit -m initial &&
+	git tag mark &&
+	git show-ref --tags -d | sed -e "s/ /	/" >expected.tag &&
+	(
+		echo "$(git rev-parse HEAD)	HEAD"
+		git show-ref -d	| sed -e "s/ /	/"
+	) >expected.all &&
+
+	git remote add self $(pwd)/.git
+
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'ls-remote --tags .git' '
+
+	git ls-remote --tags .git >actual &&
+	diff -u expected.tag actual
+
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'ls-remote .git' '
+
+	git ls-remote .git >actual &&
+	diff -u expected.all actual
+
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'ls-remote --tags self' '
+
+	git ls-remote --tags self >actual &&
+	diff -u expected.tag actual
+
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'ls-remote self' '
+
+	git ls-remote self >actual &&
+	diff -u expected.all actual
+
+'
+
+test_done