[PATCH v4 07/11] Documentation/replace: tell that -f option bypasses the type check
From: Christian Couder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:58:36
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <redacted> --- Documentation/git-replace.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
index 736b48c..a2bd2ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt@@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ replaced. The content of the 'replace' reference is the SHA-1 of the replacement object. The replaced object and the replacement object must be of the same type. -There is no other restriction on them. +This restriction can be bypassed using `-f`. Unless `-f` is given, the 'replace' reference must not yet exist. +There is no other restriction on the replaced and replacement objects. + Replacement references will be used by default by all Git commands except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and fsck).
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