git-fetch: Avoid reading packed refs over and over again

When checking which tags to fetch, the old code used to call
git-show-ref --verify for each remote tag. Since reading even
packed refs is not a cheap operation when there are a lot of
local refs, the code became quite slow.

This fixes it by teaching git-show-ref to filter out existing
refs using a new mode of operation of git-show-ref.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

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