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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/10] builtin/replace: teach listing using short, medium or full formats
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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

> I think this last one might be useful for people replacing objects
> with objects that have another type.

... which IIUC is strongly discouraged---didn't you have to tighten
it recently?

And that makes it "useful primarily for debugging" unusual
situations.

> And as we let people do that using --force, it could be useful for
> them to have a way to easily see what they have done.
>
> Thanks,
> Christian.