From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily•org>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee•org>,
Thomas Rast <trast@inf•ethz.ch>, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg•org>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 07/11] Documentation/replace: tell that -f option bypasses the type check
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:48:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqppsol3ds.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130903071026.29838.52710.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (Christian Couder's message of "Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:10:21 +0200")
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily•org> writes:
> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily•org>
> ---
> Documentation/git-replace.txt | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
> index 736b48c..a2bd2ee 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
> @@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ replaced. The content of the 'replace' reference is the SHA-1 of the
> replacement object.
>
> The replaced object and the replacement object must be of the same type.
> -There is no other restriction on them.
> +This restriction can be bypassed using `-f`.
>
> Unless `-f` is given, the 'replace' reference must not yet exist.
>
> +There is no other restriction on the replaced and replacement objects.
> +
This is outside the scope of this topic, but I wonder if we want to
restrict a replacement operation that causes a cycle in the object
graph (a commit reaches itself after following its parent pointer,
a tree reaches itself after looking into trees within, a tag reaches
itself after following its "object" reference), and if we do want
it, it is feasible to implement it.
> Replacement references will be used by default by all Git commands
> except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and
> fsck).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-04 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-03 7:10 [PATCH v4 00/11] Check replacement object type and minor updates Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] replace: forbid replacing an object with one of a different type Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] Documentation/replace: state that objects must be of the same type Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] t6050-replace: test that objects are " Christian Couder
2013-09-04 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-05 19:13 ` Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] t6050-replace: add test to clean up all the replace refs Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] Documentation/replace: add Creating Replacement Objects section Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] replace: bypass the type check if -f option is used Christian Couder
2013-09-04 20:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-05 12:56 ` Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] Documentation/replace: tell that -f option bypasses the type check Christian Couder
2013-09-04 20:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-04 20:48 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] t6050-replace: check " Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] replace: allow long option names Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] Documentation/replace: list " Christian Couder
2013-09-04 20:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-05 13:03 ` Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] t6050-replace: use some " Christian Couder
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