Duy Nguyen <[email protected]> writes: > Off topic. This reminds me of an old patch about apply and ita [1] but > that one is not the same here
... Yeah, and re-reading that one, I think that sort-of makes sense. I am hesitant to take it out of context, though. I wonder how it would interact with that broken mode of "git apply" where it can take patches to the same path number of times... > [1] > https://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/ >> ita entry in the index for symmetry, wouldn't it? That by itself >> can be seen as an improvement (we no longer would have to say that >> "git apply patchfile && git commit -a" that is run in a clean state >> will forget new files the patchfile creates), but it also means ... Another downside is that "git reset --hard" after "git apply" will suddenly start removing them. Perhaps that can be seen a feature? I dunno.

