On Tue, 9 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 
> 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.

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> > 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
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