Teach the syntax: "git replace <object> <replacement>", so that
"git replace" can now create replace refs. These replace refs
will be used by read_sha1_file to substitute <object> with
<replacement> for most of the commands.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This command can only be used now to list replace refs in
"refs/replace/" and to delete them.
The option to list replace refs is "-l".
The option to delete replace refs is "-d".
The behavior should be consistent with how "git tag" and "git branch"
are working.
The code has been copied from "builtin-tag.c" by Kristian Høgsberg
<krh@redhat.com> and Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com> that was itself
based on git-tag.sh and mktag.c by Linus Torvalds.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new "read_replace_refs" global variable is set to 1 by
default, so that replace refs are used by default. But
reachability traversal and packing commands ("cmd_fsck",
"cmd_prune", "cmd_pack_objects", "upload_pack",
"cmd_unpack_objects") set it to 0, as they must work with the
original DAG.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Otherwise we get a "sha1 mismatch" error for replaced objects.
Note that I am not sure at all that this is a good change.
It may be that we should just refuse to tag a replaced object. But
in this case we should probably give a meaningfull error message
instead of "sha1 mismatch".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In this patch the setup code is very big, but this will be used in
test cases that will be added later.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
