From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:54:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list: ignore replacements in the connectivity check
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZTKaJhWHuKnSxL1pYN_JXdrr1Eohy8RepqFRc=Qph92Yg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2279.git.1793634429929.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Kristofer Karlsson via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.adoc b/Documentation/rev-list-options.adoc
> index 285fb3809f..b2c0d394ab 100644
> --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.adoc
> @@ -1107,6 +1107,7 @@ It is an error to use `--missing-only` without `--missing=print` or
>  	(For internal use only.)  Used by `check_connected()` to
>  	select the connectivity check algorithm; see
>  	`transfer.connectivityCheck` in linkgit:git-config[1].
> +	Replacement objects are ignored, as with `--no-replace-objects`.
>  endif::git-rev-list[]
>
>  `--no-walk[=(sorted|unsorted)]`::

Nit: Should we also modify 'Documentation/git-replace.adoc', which says:

  Replacement references will be used by default by all Git commands
  except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and
  fsck).