From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 19:37:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/10] builtin/replace: unset read_replace_refs
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD2XbxYDEevYGOwWJrqg6k=UYoCWn6gPONizrKuKOWf=qw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20131207T200130-598@post.gmane.org>

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wasn't replace mechanism tightened, so that replacing object
> must be the same type as replaced object?

Yes, but if --force is used or if the replace ref is created with git
update-ref, then it is not enforced.

> Is there a situation where you might want replace object
> with different type of object?

This was discussed:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/233157/

Thanks,
Christian.