Re: [PATCH v4 06/11] replace: bypass the type check if -f option is used

> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
>
>> If -f option, which means '--force', is used, we can allow an object
>> to be replaced with one of a different type, as the user should know
>> what (s)he is doing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
>> ---
>
> This does not matter in a larger picture, but between 1/11 and this
> patch, there is a window where an operation that has been useful in
> some workflows becomes unavailable to the user.
>
> For future reference, it would be better to do this as a part of
> 1/11, to make sure that there always is an escape hatch available to
> the users.