On Tue, 9 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 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
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