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| author |  Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> | 2013-09-06 07:10:57 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-09-06 13:29:53 -0700 |
| commit | b8fcce1e7f7baafba8b6ba0b4e9bec2f27893f43 (patch) | |
| tree | 5998498cda3066dd9b690b84fe60fbc7b2dec85b /Documentation/git-replace.txt | |
| parent | t6050-replace: add test to clean up all the replace refs (diff) | |
| download | tgif-b8fcce1e7f7baafba8b6ba0b4e9bec2f27893f43.tar.xz | |
Documentation/replace: add Creating Replacement Objects section
There were no hints in the documentation about how to create
replacement objects.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-replace.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-replace.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt index d198006c56..a2bd2ee361 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt @@ -66,6 +66,19 @@ OPTIONS Typing "git replace" without arguments, also lists all replace refs. +CREATING REPLACEMENT OBJECTS +---------------------------- + +linkgit:git-filter-branch[1], linkgit:git-hash-object[1] and +linkgit:git-rebase[1], among other git commands, can be used to create +replacement objects from existing objects. + +If you want to replace many blobs, trees or commits that are part of a +string of commits, you may just want to create a replacement string of +commits and then only replace the commit at the tip of the target +string of commits with the commit at the tip of the replacement string +of commits. + BUGS ---- Comparing blobs or trees that have been replaced with those that @@ -78,6 +91,9 @@ pending objects. SEE ALSO -------- +linkgit:git-hash-object[1] +linkgit:git-filter-branch[1] +linkgit:git-rebase[1] linkgit:git-tag[1] linkgit:git-branch[1] linkgit:git[1] |