Merge branch 'js/deprecate-grafts'

The functionality of "$GIT_DIR/info/grafts" has been superseded by
the "refs/replace/" mechanism for some time now, but the internal
code had support for it in many places, which has been cleaned up
in order to drop support of the "grafts" mechanism.

* js/deprecate-grafts:
  Remove obsolete script to convert grafts to replace refs
  technical/shallow: describe why shallow cannot use replace refs
  technical/shallow: stop referring to grafts
  filter-branch: stop suggesting to use grafts
  Deprecate support for .git/info/grafts
  Add a test for `git replace --convert-graft-file`
  replace: introduce --convert-graft-file
  replace: prepare create_graft() for converting graft files wholesale
  replace: "libify" create_graft() and callees
  replace: avoid using die() to indicate a bug
  commit: Let the callback of for_each_mergetag return on error
  argv_array: offer to split a string by whitespace

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt
index 5183b15422..01dedfe9ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt
@@ -8,20 +8,22 @@ repo, and therefore grafts are introduced pretending that
 these commits have no parents.
 *********************************************************
 
-The basic idea is to write the SHA-1s of shallow commits into
-$GIT_DIR/shallow, and handle its contents like the contents
-of $GIT_DIR/info/grafts (with the difference that shallow
-cannot contain parent information).
-
-This information is stored in a new file instead of grafts, or
-even the config, since the user should not touch that file
-at all (even throughout development of the shallow clone, it
-was never manually edited!).
+$GIT_DIR/shallow lists commit object names and tells Git to
+pretend as if they are root commits (e.g. "git log" traversal
+stops after showing them; "git fsck" does not complain saying
+the commits listed on their "parent" lines do not exist).
 
 Each line contains exactly one SHA-1. When read, a commit_graft
 will be constructed, which has nr_parent < 0 to make it easier
 to discern from user provided grafts.
 
+Note that the shallow feature could not be changed easily to
+use replace refs: a commit containing a `mergetag` is not allowed
+to be replaced, not even by a root commit. Such a commit can be
+made shallow, though. Also, having a `shallow` file explicitly
+listing all the commits made shallow makes it a *lot* easier to
+do shallow-specific things such as to deepen the history.
+
 Since fsck-objects relies on the library to read the objects,
 it honours shallow commits automatically.