Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chrisc...@tuxfamily.org> --- 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). -- 1.8.4.rc1.31.g530f5ce.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
