Re: What's in git.git

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 10, 2006, 04:21 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605092117240.3718@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7viroezi8s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> Junio C Hamano:
>       binary patch.
>       binary diff: further updates.

Btw, am I just smoking stuff, or is this going to be fundamentally problematic for "git-apply -R" if we ever want to support that?

I think the new binary diff is non-reversible. That's ok right now, since we don't actually support patching in reverse (if you want to get the reverse patch, you need to _diff_ it in reverse and then patch it that way).

But at least in theory we might well want to do "-R" eventually.

Hmm? Or did I just mis-understand the format?

		Linus