Christian Couder [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk
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).
And this should be in the same patch as the one that makes the code
change.