Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> writes:

>         Action item: warn users against using "apply -R" on a
>         patchset with such a patch while this is fixed.

This needs to be replaced with the logic to properly reverse a patch
that creates a new file by copying from somewhere else, but for now,
this would be a good idea to prevent lossages from happening.

 builtin/apply.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/builtin/apply.c b/builtin/apply.c
index 0aad912..b33b403 100644
--- a/builtin/apply.c
+++ b/builtin/apply.c
@@ -2069,6 +2069,9 @@ static void reverse_patches(struct patch *p)
        for (; p; p = p->next) {
                struct fragment *frag = p->fragments;
 
+               if (p->is_copy)
+                       die(_("sorry, cannot apply a 'copying' patch in reverse 
(yet)"));
+
                swap(p->new_name, p->old_name);
                swap(p->new_mode, p->old_mode);
                swap(p->is_new, p->is_delete);
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