git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: GitList <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Doc: 'replace' merge and non-merge commits
Date: Sun,  8 Sep 2013 13:10:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378642244-3572-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqob86g8v4.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Merges are often treated as special case objects so tell users that
they are not special here.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
---

This updates my in-line patch given in [PATCH v3 07/11]
Documentation/replace: tell that -f option bypasses the type check
($gmane/233997 05 September 2013 23:20) and Junio's comments
($gmane/234001 06 September 2013 00:13) 

Applies on top of pu and Christian Couder's series.

Philip

---
 Documentation/git-replace.txt | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
index 414000e..f373ab4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ 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.
+Merge commits can be replaced by non-merge commits and vice versa.
 
 Replacement references will be used by default by all Git commands
 except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and
-- 
1.8.1.msysgit.1

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-08 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-05 22:20 [PATCH v3 07/11] Documentation/replace: tell that -f option bypasses the type check Philip Oakley
2013-09-05 23:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-08 12:10   ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2013-09-09 15:17     ` [PATCH] Doc: 'replace' merge and non-merge commits Junio C Hamano

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1378642244-3572-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org \
    --to=philipoakley@iee.org \
    --cc=chriscool@tuxfamily.org \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=gitster@pobox.com \
    --cc=j6t@kdbg.org \
    --cc=trast@inf.ethz.ch \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).