From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 04:51:44 GMT Subject: Re: What's in git.git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vd5emze3h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > It is problematic but not more than the current index + "Binary > files differ" output. If you have both pre and postimage then > you do not need the binary data. Fair enough. > > But at least in theory we might well want to do "-R" eventually. > > Yes, but even without binary, -R has a funny implication when > copy-edit patch is involved. What if a patch copy-edits to > create a new file B based on old A, and also modifies A > in-place, and somehow the postimages of A and B you already have > are not consistent with what that patch does? Yeah, that could get exciting ;) Linus