On Wed Aug 12, 2020 at 3:23 PM EDT, Junio C Hamano wrote: > An error is raised if the file in the working tree being patched > has contents different from what is registered in the index. > > captures most of it, but still misses the "cached stat information > also must match" part. As a point of pedantry, it checks the preimages (don't want docs readers to be worried it might somehow touch something and *then* error out). I'll see if I can think of a succinct wording while I'm updating some of the other patches.
