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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2012-11-04 08:00:11 -0500
committerLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2012-11-04 08:00:11 -0500
commite52bec9469e6df752471d654fca56200d32a0392 (patch)
tree9c49df0eedb9eb3bdcf18d0235796cc0a3ae29ec
parentMerge branch 'ph/pull-rebase-detached' (diff)
parentDoc repository-layout: Show refs/replace (diff)
downloadtgif-e52bec9469e6df752471d654fca56200d32a0392.tar.xz
Merge branch 'po/maint-refs-replace-docs'
The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the repository-layout docs. * po/maint-refs-replace-docs: Doc repository-layout: Show refs/replace
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt6
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index 5c891f1169..9f628862b4 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 linkgit:git-replace[1]. 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