From: Christian Couder Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 19:12:10 GMT Subject: [PATCH v3 07/11] Documentation/replace: tell that -f option bypasses the type check Message-ID: <20130831191215.26699.720.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> In-Reply-To: <20130831190528.26699.33964.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder --- Documentation/git-replace.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt index 736b48c..a2bd2ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt @@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ replaced. The content of the 'replace' reference is the SHA-1 of the replacement object. The replaced object and the replacement object must be of the same type. -There is no other restriction on them. +This restriction can be bypassed using `-f`. Unless `-f` is given, the 'replace' reference must not yet exist. +There is no other restriction on the replaced and replacement objects. + Replacement references will be used by default by all Git commands except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and fsck). -- 1.8.4.rc1.31.g530f5ce.dirty