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NAME

6       git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch
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SYNOPSIS

9       git patch-id [--stable | --unstable]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Read a patch from the standard input and compute the patch ID for it.
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14       A "patch ID" is nothing but a sum of SHA-1 of the file diffs associated
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16       "reasonably stable", but at the same time also reasonably unique, i.e.,
17       two patches that have the same "patch ID" are almost guaranteed to be
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20       IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits.
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22       When dealing with git diff-tree output, it takes advantage of the fact
23       that the patch is prefixed with the object name of the commit, and
24       outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal strings. The first string is the patch
25       ID, and the second string is the commit ID. This can be used to make a
26       mapping from patch ID to commit ID.
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OPTIONS

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30           Use a "stable" sum of hashes as the patch ID. With this option:
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32           ·   Reordering file diffs that make up a patch does not affect the
33               ID. In particular, two patches produced by comparing the same
34               two trees with two different settings for "-O<orderfile>"
35               result in the same patch ID signature, thereby allowing the
36               computed result to be used as a key to index some
37               meta-information about the change between the two trees;
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39           ·   Result is different from the value produced by git 1.9 and
40               older or produced when an "unstable" hash (see --unstable
41               below) is configured - even when used on a diff output taken
42               without any use of "-O<orderfile>", thereby making existing
43               databases storing such "unstable" or historical patch-ids
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46                   This is the default if patchid.stable is set to true.
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48       --unstable
49           Use an "unstable" hash as the patch ID. With this option, the
50           result produced is compatible with the patch-id value produced by
51           git 1.9 and older. Users with pre-existing databases storing
52           patch-ids produced by git 1.9 and older (who do not deal with
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GIT

58       Part of the git(1) suite
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