git: add --no-replace-objects option to disable replacing

Commit dae556b (environment: add global variable to disable replacement)
adds a variable to enable/disable replacement, and it is enabled by
default for most commands.

So there is no way to disable it for some commands, which is annoying
when we want to get information about a commit that has been replaced.

For example:

$ git cat-file -p N

would output information about the replacement commit if commit N is
replaced.

With the "--no-replace-objects" option that this patch adds it is
possible to get information about the original commit using:

$ git --no-replace-objects cat-file -p N

While at it, let's add some documentation about this new option in the
"git replace" man page too.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Christian Couder
2009-10-12 22:30:32 +02:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 78d553b7d7
commit b0fa7ab51b
4 changed files with 36 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -70,6 +70,13 @@ test_expect_success 'replace the author' '
git show $HASH2 | grep "O Thor"
'
test_expect_success 'test --no-replace-objects option' '
git cat-file commit $HASH2 | grep "author O Thor" &&
git --no-replace-objects cat-file commit $HASH2 | grep "author A U Thor" &&
git show $HASH2 | grep "O Thor" &&
git --no-replace-objects show $HASH2 | grep "A U Thor"
'
cat >tag.sig <<EOF
object $HASH2
type commit