Re: [PATCH 5/9] New option --force-delete for git-apply.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: 2005-08-29 07:06:44
Robert Fitzsimons <robfitz@273k.net> writes:

> Allow the user to force a patch that deletes a file to succeed even
> though the file might still contain data.  Added a test case.

Why?

I've seen cases where git-apply incorrectly thinks a patch
leaves some data in a file to be deleted, when incomplete lines
are involved.  But I think that bug has been fixed, and the only
case where you would need this new flag should be dealing with a
corrupt/invalid patch.

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