Re: [PATCH] Doc: 'replace' merge and non-merge commits
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
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> Merges are often treated as special case objects so tell users that
> they are not special here.
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> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
> ---
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> This updates my in-line patch given in [PATCH v3 07/11]
> Documentation/replace: tell that -f option bypasses the type check
> ($gmane/233997 05 September 2013 23:20) and Junio's comments
> ($gmane/234001 06 September 2013 00:13)
>
> Applies on top of pu and Christian Couder's series.
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> Philip
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> Documentation/git-replace.txt | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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> diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
> index 414000e..f373ab4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ This restriction can be bypassed using `-f`.
> Unless `-f` is given, the 'replace' reference must not yet exist.
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> There is no other restriction on the replaced and replacement objects.
> +Merge commits can be replaced by non-merge commits and vice versa.
>
> Replacement references will be used by default by all Git commands
> except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and