Documentation/replace: add Creating Replacement Objects section

There were no hints in the documentation about how to create
replacement objects.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
index d198006c56fff7301e9d5d1a3329044225bdd0f6..a2bd2ee361c33c2f247d737789cfec12a28480c4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
@@ -66,6 +66,19 @@ OPTIONS
        Typing "git replace" without arguments, also lists all replace
        refs.
 
        Typing "git replace" without arguments, also lists all replace
        refs.
 

+CREATING REPLACEMENT OBJECTS
+----------------------------
+
+linkgit:git-filter-branch[1], linkgit:git-hash-object[1] and
+linkgit:git-rebase[1], among other git commands, can be used to create
+replacement objects from existing objects.
+
+If you want to replace many blobs, trees or commits that are part of a
+string of commits, you may just want to create a replacement string of
+commits and then only replace the commit at the tip of the target
+string of commits with the commit at the tip of the replacement string
+of commits.
+

 BUGS
 ----
 Comparing blobs or trees that have been replaced with those that
 BUGS
 ----
 Comparing blobs or trees that have been replaced with those that


@@ -78,6 +91,9 @@ pending objects.
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------

+linkgit:git-hash-object[1]
+linkgit:git-filter-branch[1]
+linkgit:git-rebase[1]

 linkgit:git-tag[1]
 linkgit:git-branch[1]
 linkgit:git[1]
 linkgit:git-tag[1]
 linkgit:git-branch[1]
 linkgit:git[1]