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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.5-rc1

From
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 7, 2013, 09:31 UTC
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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>  * "git replace" helper no longer allows an object to be replaced with
>    another object of a different type to avoid confusion (you can
>    still manually craft such replacement using "git update-ref", as an
>    escape hatch).

Maybe it would be more helpful to say "you can still do that using the --force option" instead of pointing people to "git update-ref".

Thanks, Christian.

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  1. Junio C HamanoNov 6, 2013
  2. Christian CouderNov 7, 2013

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