[PATCH] Doc repository-layout: Show refs/replace

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Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx>
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My question on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6800692
how-do-git-grafts-and-replace-differ-are-grafts-now-deprecated
noted that the gitrepository-layout(5) wasn't up to date. 

Recent hits have propmted me to offer a patch.

Here is that patch.

Philip

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 Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index 5c891f1..d546e20 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ refs/remotes/`name`::
 	records tip-of-the-tree commit objects of branches copied
 	from a remote repository.
 
+refs/replace/`<obj-sha1>`::
+	records the SHA1 of the object that replaces `<obj-sha1>`.
+	This is similar to info/grafts and is internally used and
+	maintained by `git replace`. Such refs can be exchanged between
+	repositories while grafts are not.
+
 packed-refs::
 	records the same information as refs/heads/, refs/tags/,
 	and friends record in a more efficient way.  See
-- 
1.7.11.msysgit.1

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