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Re: Filename quoting / parsing problem

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 6, 2010, 01:32 UTC
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Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> writes:
>  * sha1 checksums are not verified right now.  I'm not sure when that
>  should happen: always by default, or only optionally?

preimage and postimage sums are not something you would "verify" with anyway, and they are not useful unless you are dealing with binary patch, so I wouldn't worry too much about them.

>  * Similarity and dissimilarity headers are ignored.

I think it is fine to ignore them; even git doesn't use this information other than parroting them in "apply --summary --stat" output.

>  * Binary diffs are no supported.  I think GNU patch should recognize
>  them and give a reasonable message for now.
Nice.
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