From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:56:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/11] replace: bypass the type check if -f option is used
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In-Reply-To: <xmqq4na0mi51.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I will squash patchs 6/11, 7/11 and 8/11 with 1/11, 2/11 and 3/11
respectively.

Thanks,
Christian.