From: Raymond E. Pasco <ray@ameretat.dev>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2020 03:44:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] t4140: test apply with i-t-a paths
Message-ID: <C4QGDPQHMV1C.2LUL2YNOHAYTW@ziyou.local>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqeeojjxf0.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Thu Aug 6, 2020 at 5:07 PM EDT, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> We can delete an I-T-A entry. I wonder if
>
> git apply --cached -R creation-patch
>
> also serves as a way to remove the path? It should succeed, right?

It fails to apply because the inverse patch to creation-patch removes
lines, while the i-t-a entry has no lines. (Looking at it from the other
angle, deletion-patch doesn't delete lines, because there are none.)

(Of course, -R creation-patch after creation-patch removes the path
cleanly.)