[PATCH 5/5] Documentation/replace: add Creating Replacement Objects section

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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

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Aug 25, 2013, 13:06 UTC

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Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 Documentation/git-replace.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
index aa66d27..736b48c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
@@ -64,6 +64,19 @@ OPTIONS
 	Typing "git replace" without arguments, also lists all replace
 	refs.
 
+CREATING REPLACEMENT OBJECTS
+----------------------------
+
+linkgit:git-filter-branch[1], linkgit:git-hash-object[1] and
+linkgit:git-rebase[1], among other git commands, can be used to create
+replacement objects from existing objects.
+
+If you want to replace many blobs, trees or commits that are part of a
+string of commits, you may just want to create a replacement string of
+commits and then only replace the commit at the tip of the target
+string of commits with the commit at the tip of the replacement string
+of commits.
+
 BUGS
 ----
 Comparing blobs or trees that have been replaced with those that
@@ -76,6 +89,9 @@ pending objects.
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
+linkgit:git-hash-object[1]
+linkgit:git-filter-branch[1]
+linkgit:git-rebase[1]
 linkgit:git-tag[1]
 linkgit:git-branch[1]
 linkgit:git[1]

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