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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

>> Think of a future when you can shallowly clone near the tip of
>> git repository that does not have shell-script git-branch.sh
>> anymore.  You cannot expect to already have the preimage of the
>> patch in such a case.  You would still want to be able to revert
>> the change with "git apply -R".
>
> Hmm, how is this argument not applying to binary diffs you can't revert
> either?

Earlier you cannot, but because now you can, perhaps? ;-)