The grafting mechanism for objects has been deprecated in e650d0643b (docs: mark info/grafts as outdated, 2014-03-05), which is more than a decade ago. The mechanism can lead to hard-to-debug issues and has a superior replacement with replace refs. Follow through with the deprecation and mark grafts for removal in Git 3.0. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> --- Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt b/Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt index 5d7e80aebb..9fb6d8c78a 100644 --- a/Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt +++ b/Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt @@ -96,6 +96,18 @@ Cf. <2f5de416-04ba-c23d-1e0b-83bb655829a7@xxxxxxxxxxx>, === Removals +* Support for grafting commits has long been superseded by git-replace(1). + Grafts are inferior to replacement refs: ++ + ** Grafts are a local-only mechanism and cannot be shared across reositories. + ** Grafts can lead to hard-to-diagnose problems when transferring objects + between repositories. ++ +The grafting mechanism has been marked as outdated since e650d0643b (docs: mark +info/grafts as outdated, 2014-03-05) and will be removed. ++ +Cf. <20140304174806.GA11561@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. + == Superseded features that will not be deprecated Some features have gained newer replacements that aim to improve the design in -- 2.45.1.410.g58bac47f8e.dirty
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