From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:53:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug report: git branch behaves as if --no-replace-objects is passed
Message-ID: <xmqqa6qkcnqa.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BEE0eksCJSAviDh5GyqsOu=i_mW3VY6SEULa4kx0NsUMg@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> Using your own words:
>
> "the replace mechanism is about telling Git: when anybody refers to
> deadbeef, use its replacement if defined instead."

"When anybody wants the contents of deadbeef, give the contents of
its replacement" is what the replace (graft, too) is.

> git branch didn't do that; it put deadbeef into refs/heads/foobar.

Yes, but refs/heads/foobar having deadbeef does not have a problem,
as long as you get the contents of the replacement object when you
ask for the contents of deadbeef (or "the object referred to by
the refs/heads/foobar ref").