Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/10] builtin/replace: teach listing using short, medium or full formats

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:58:18 -0800

Christian Couder <[email-masked]> writes:

> I think this last one might be useful for people replacing objects
> with objects that have another type.

... which IIUC is strongly discouraged---didn't you have to tighten
it recently?

And that makes it "useful primarily for debugging" unusual
situations.

> And as we let people do that using --force, it could be useful for
> them to have a way to easily see what they have done.
>
> Thanks,
> Christian.