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authorPhilip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>2013-09-08 13:10:44 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-09-09 08:16:30 -0700
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Doc: 'replace' merge and non-merge commitscc/replace-with-the-same-type
Merges are often treated as special case objects so tell users that they are not special here. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ 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.
+Merge commits can be replaced by non-merge commits and vice versa.
Replacement references will be used by default by all Git commands
except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and