From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:06:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] New option --force-delete for git-apply.
Message-ID: <7vzmr1kbyz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <11252426793534-git-send-email-robfitz@273k.net>

Robert Fitzsimons <robfitz@273k.net> writes:

> Allow the user to force a patch that deletes a file to succeed even
> though the file might still contain data.  Added a test case.

Why?

I've seen cases where git-apply incorrectly thinks a patch
leaves some data in a file to be deleted, when incomplete lines
are involved.  But I think that bug has been fixed, and the only
case where you would need this new flag should be dealing with a
corrupt/invalid patch.