From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:46:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] gitweb: Add GIT favicon, assuming image/png type
Message-ID: <7virk3l07a.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <edhrij$l9j$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>> index 199fbe87384cd3f4686916277dd124cefc751e8a..f3b762de92e579300eba3f53ee26b2a80b4e76c7 100644
>
> Hmmm... I do wonder why --binary implies --full-index option.

Patch safety.  Yours happened to be a creation patch so it might
not matter in this particular case, but we would want to be
reasonably sure there is no ambiguity in the preimage when you
are doing a modification patch.