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git-patch-id(1)
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NAME
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git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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[verse]
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'git patch-id' < <patch>
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DESCRIPTION
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A "patch ID" is nothing but a SHA-1 of the diff associated with a patch, with
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whitespace and line numbers ignored. As such, it's "reasonably stable", but at
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the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that have the same "patch
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ID" are almost guaranteed to be the same thing.
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IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits.
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When dealing with 'git diff-tree' output, it takes advantage of
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the fact that the patch is prefixed with the object name of the
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commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal strings. The first
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string is the patch ID, and the second string is the commit ID.
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This can be used to make a mapping from patch ID to commit ID.
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OPTIONS
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<patch>::
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The diff to create the ID of.
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GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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