Re: [PATCH] Teach git-apply about '-R'

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 28, 2006, 19:36 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607282135380.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vhd11leny.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> 
> >> A quick comment without looking much at the code.  Do you sanely
> >> bail out when asked to reverse-apply a binary patch?
> >
> > Nope. I swap old_sha1_prefix and new_sha1_prefix in that case, I hoped 
> > that is enough?
> 
> You would need something like this, at least for now, since both
> deflated literal and deflated delta methods are irreversible.

Somehow I had the impression that binary diff meant that you needed both objects in the object database. I was wrong.

Ciao, Dscho