From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 09:31:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.5-rc1
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0faEZNU0A+r8eQTSKH84QqrT2wdeLWkGWx+NvoucKG5w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbo1x6q32.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>  * "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.