* [PATCH] Doc repository-layout: Show refs/replace
@ 2012-10-21 20:52 Philip Oakley
2012-10-25 10:34 ` Jeff King
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Philip Oakley @ 2012-10-21 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: GitList; +Cc: Philip Oakley
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
---
My question on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6800692
how-do-git-grafts-and-replace-differ-are-grafts-now-deprecated
noted that the gitrepository-layout(5) wasn't up to date.
Recent hits have propmted me to offer a patch.
Here is that patch.
Philip
---
Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index 5c891f1..d546e20 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ refs/remotes/`name`::
records tip-of-the-tree commit objects of branches copied
from a remote repository.
+refs/replace/`<obj-sha1>`::
+ records the SHA1 of the object that replaces `<obj-sha1>`.
+ This is similar to info/grafts and is internally used and
+ maintained by `git replace`. Such refs can be exchanged between
+ repositories while grafts are not.
+
packed-refs::
records the same information as refs/heads/, refs/tags/,
and friends record in a more efficient way. See
--
1.7.11.msysgit.1
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* Re: [PATCH] Doc repository-layout: Show refs/replace
2012-10-21 20:52 [PATCH] Doc repository-layout: Show refs/replace Philip Oakley
@ 2012-10-25 10:34 ` Jeff King
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From: Jeff King @ 2012-10-25 10:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Philip Oakley; +Cc: GitList
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 09:52:37PM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Thanks, this makes sense.
> +refs/replace/`<obj-sha1>`::
> + records the SHA1 of the object that replaces `<obj-sha1>`.
> + This is similar to info/grafts and is internally used and
> + maintained by `git replace`. Such refs can be exchanged between
> + repositories while grafts are not.
This should probably be an actual link to the git-replace manpage. I'll
convert it to a linkgit. No need to resend.
-Peff
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