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patchDoc repository-layout: Show refs/replace

Subject: [PATCH] Doc repository-layout: Show refs/replace

## tl;dr

2 messages between Oct 21, 2012 and Oct 25, 2012. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Philip Oakley· Oct 21, 2012, 20:52 UTC · lore
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
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My question on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6800692 how-do-git-grafts-and-replace-differ-are-grafts-now-deprecated noted that the gitrepository-layout(5) wasn't up to date.

Recent hits have propmted me to offer a patch.
Here is that patch.
Philip
---
 Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
Show changes to Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt +6 −0
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index 5c891f1..d546e20 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ refs/remotes/`name`::
 	records tip-of-the-tree commit objects of branches copied
 	from a remote repository.
 
+refs/replace/`<obj-sha1>`::
+	records the SHA1 of the object that replaces `<obj-sha1>`.
+	This is similar to info/grafts and is internally used and
+	maintained by `git replace`. Such refs can be exchanged between
+	repositories while grafts are not.
+
 packed-refs::
 	records the same information as refs/heads/, refs/tags/,
 	and friends record in a more efficient way.  See
-- 
1.7.11.msysgit.1
Jeff King· Oct 25, 2012, 10:34 UTC · re: Philip Oakley · lore

Re: [PATCH] Doc repository-layout: Show refs/replace

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 09:52:37PM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Thanks, this makes sense.
Show 5 quoted lines
> +refs/replace/`<obj-sha1>`::
> +	records the SHA1 of the object that replaces `<obj-sha1>`.
> +	This is similar to info/grafts and is internally used and
> +	maintained by `git replace`. Such refs can be exchanged between
> +	repositories while grafts are not.

This should probably be an actual link to the git-replace manpage. I'll convert it to a linkgit. No need to resend.

-Peff

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