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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2014-03-05 14:28:38 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-03-05 12:24:01 -0800
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docs: mark info/grafts as outdatedjk/doc-deprecate-grafts
We should be encouraging people to use git-replace instead. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -176,6 +176,10 @@ info/grafts::
per line describes a commit and its fake parents by
listing their 40-byte hexadecimal object names separated
by a space and terminated by a newline.
++
+Note that the grafts mechanism is outdated and can lead to problems
+transferring objects between repositories; see linkgit:git-replace[1]
+for a more flexible and robust system to do the same thing.
info/exclude::
This file, by convention among Porcelains, stores the