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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.5-rc1
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:31:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0faEZNU0A+r8eQTSKH84QqrT2wdeLWkGWx+NvoucKG5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbo1x6q32.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>  * "git replace" helper no longer allows an object to be replaced with
>    another object of a different type to avoid confusion (you can
>    still manually craft such replacement using "git update-ref", as an
>    escape hatch).

Maybe it would be more helpful to say "you can still do that using the
--force option" instead of pointing people to "git update-ref".

Thanks,
Christian.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-07  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-06 23:57 [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.5-rc1 Junio C Hamano
2013-11-07  9:31 ` Christian Couder [this message]

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