Merges are often treated as special case objects so tell users that they are not special here. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> --- This updates my in-line patch given in [PATCH v3 07/11] Documentation/replace: tell that -f option bypasses the type check ($gmane/233997 05 September 2013 23:20) and Junio's comments ($gmane/234001 06 September 2013 00:13) Applies on top of pu and Christian Couder's series. Philip --- Documentation/git-replace.txt | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt index 414000e..f373ab4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt @@ -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 -- 1.8.1.msysgit.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html