From: Christian Couder Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 05:10:54 GMT Subject: [PATCH v5 2/7] Documentation/replace: state that objects must be of the same type Message-ID: <20130906051100.6657.88471.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> In-Reply-To: <20130906050702.6657.25651.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> A previous patch ensures that both the replaced and the replacement objects passed to git replace must be of the same type, except if -f option is used. While at it state that there is no other restriction on both objects. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder --- Documentation/git-replace.txt | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt index e0b4057..d198006 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt @@ -20,8 +20,13 @@ The name of the 'replace' reference is the SHA-1 of the object that is 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. +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). @@ -69,9 +74,7 @@ go back to a replaced commit will move the branch to the replacement commit instead of the replaced commit. There may be other problems when using 'git rev-list' related to -pending objects. And of course things may break if an object of one -type is replaced by an object of another type (for example a blob -replaced by a commit). +pending objects. SEE ALSO -------- -- 1.8.4.rc1.28.ge2684af