From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:00:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git-branch a builtin
Message-ID: <7v8xj5ir7g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061024113924.GC20017@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

>> Think of a future when you can shallowly clone near the tip of
>> git repository that does not have shell-script git-branch.sh
>> anymore.  You cannot expect to already have the preimage of the
>> patch in such a case.  You would still want to be able to revert
>> the change with "git apply -R".
>
> Hmm, how is this argument not applying to binary diffs you can't revert
> either?

Earlier you cannot, but because now you can, perhaps? ;-)