Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 14.11.2012 00:22: > Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I don't believe that reversibility >> is a really useful aspect of deletion patches >> when there are known git repositories involved. > > You can read "reversibility" as "safety" if you want. We would want > to make sure we know what we are deleting before deleting a path. > > The history that the receiver of such a patch has may have further > changes that are relevant that the sender of the deletion patch did > not know about, and removing the path in such a case would make the > result inconsistent. If the sender did his work on top of the newer > version with the change in the path, the sender's patch may still > have deleted the path but would have had changes to other paths to > compensate for the loss of that change. > Just in case someone wants to hack on this: To be safe, "git am" would need to read the blob's sha1 from something like diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index 1b6d84d..0000000 and check that the file to be deleted matches. Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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