From: Philip Oakley Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:52:37 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Doc repository-layout: Show refs/replace Message-ID: <1350852757-3924-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley --- My question on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6800692 how-do-git-grafts-and-replace-differ-are-grafts-now-deprecated noted that the gitrepository-layout(5) wasn't up to date. Recent hits have propmted me to offer a patch. Here is that patch. Philip --- Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt index 5c891f1..d546e20 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt @@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ refs/remotes/`name`:: records tip-of-the-tree commit objects of branches copied from a remote repository. +refs/replace/``:: + records the SHA1 of the object that replaces ``. + This is similar to info/grafts and is internally used and + maintained by `git replace`. Such refs can be exchanged between + repositories while grafts are not. + packed-refs:: records the same information as refs/heads/, refs/tags/, and friends record in a more efficient way. See -- 1.7.11.msysgit.1