On Tue, 9 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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). Btw, I don't actually know why we don't support "-R". The way git-apply is written, it should be totally trivial (just switch old/new around for data and line numbers - since it doesn't actually apply the patch directly line by line or anything like that) for a normal patch. So if I read the binary patch right, the lack of "-R" went from "silly oversight" to "uhhuh, I don't think the patch format supports it". Maybe it's not a big deal. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html