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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] t4140: test apply with i-t-a paths
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From:   "Raymond E. Pasco" <ray@ameretat.dev>
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On Thu Aug 6, 2020 at 5:07 PM EDT, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> We can delete an I-T-A entry. I wonder if
>
> git apply --cached -R creation-patch
>
> also serves as a way to remove the path? It should succeed, right?

It fails to apply because the inverse patch to creation-patch removes
lines, while the i-t-a entry has no lines. (Looking at it from the other
angle, deletion-patch doesn't delete lines, because there are none.)

(Of course, -R creation-patch after creation-patch removes the path
cleanly.)