Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:05:06 +0100
>> 
>> git replace should be transparent most of the time (except for some
>> plumbing like git cat-file, and you can ignore replacements with
>> --no-replace-objects).  But note that they are stored in a different
>> namespace that is not pulled by default.
>
> Does "pull --all" solve that?

No, you need to add a fetch spec for it.  pull --all is only about
multiple remotes.

> More generally, can we put something in .git/config that would cause
> that namespace to be pulled by default?

git config --add remote.origin.fetch +refs/replace/*:refs/replace/*

Andreas.

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