Re: git replace: should it check for object type, and can it replace merges?

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:
>> A recent comment http://stackoverflow.com/a/18027030/717355 on a question I
>> asked two years ago about 'grafts' and 'replace' indicates that users think
>> that 'git replace' can't replace a merge commit. The documentation doesn't
>> have any examples and gives the naive impression that one should only
>> replace a simple commit with another simple commit.
>
> I am sorry if the documentation gives this impression.
> I'd like to fix it, but I am not sure what should be changed.
> Should adding an example be enough? Or do you want it to state that explicitely?
>
>> Having looked at the code, I realised that anything can be replaced with
>> anything, which is perhaps not what was intended.
>
> The documentation says in the "BUGS" section:
>
> "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)."
>
> So yes it is a know bug.