[PATCH v4 05/11] Documentation/replace: add Creating Replacement Objects section
From: Christian Couder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:58:36
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
There were no hints in the documentation about how to create replacement objects. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <redacted> --- Documentation/git-replace.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
index aa66d27..736b48c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt@@ -64,6 +64,19 @@ OPTIONS Typing "git replace" without arguments, also lists all replace refs. +CREATING REPLACEMENT OBJECTS +---------------------------- + +linkgit:git-filter-branch[1], linkgit:git-hash-object[1] and +linkgit:git-rebase[1], among other git commands, can be used to create +replacement objects from existing objects. + +If you want to replace many blobs, trees or commits that are part of a +string of commits, you may just want to create a replacement string of +commits and then only replace the commit at the tip of the target +string of commits with the commit at the tip of the replacement string +of commits. + BUGS ---- Comparing blobs or trees that have been replaced with those that
@@ -76,6 +89,9 @@ pending objects. SEE ALSO -------- +linkgit:git-hash-object[1] +linkgit:git-filter-branch[1] +linkgit:git-rebase[1] linkgit:git-tag[1] linkgit:git-branch[1] linkgit:git[1]
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