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1 | git-patch-id(1) | |
2 | =============== | |
3 | ||
4 | NAME | |
5 | ---- | |
6 | git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch | |
7 | ||
8 | SYNOPSIS | |
9 | -------- | |
10 | [verse] | |
11 | 'git patch-id' [--stable | --unstable] | |
12 | ||
13 | DESCRIPTION | |
14 | ----------- | |
15 | Read a patch from the standard input and compute the patch ID for it. | |
16 | ||
17 | A "patch ID" is nothing but a sum of SHA-1 of the file diffs associated with a | |
18 | patch, with whitespace and line numbers ignored. As such, it's "reasonably | |
19 | stable", but at the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that | |
20 | have the same "patch ID" are almost guaranteed to be the same thing. | |
21 | ||
22 | IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits. | |
23 | ||
24 | When dealing with 'git diff-tree' output, it takes advantage of | |
25 | the fact that the patch is prefixed with the object name of the | |
26 | commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal strings. The first | |
27 | string is the patch ID, and the second string is the commit ID. | |
28 | This can be used to make a mapping from patch ID to commit ID. | |
29 | ||
30 | OPTIONS | |
31 | ------- | |
32 | ||
33 | --stable:: | |
34 | Use a "stable" sum of hashes as the patch ID. With this option: | |
35 | - Reordering file diffs that make up a patch does not affect the ID. | |
36 | In particular, two patches produced by comparing the same two trees | |
37 | with two different settings for "-O<orderfile>" result in the same | |
38 | patch ID signature, thereby allowing the computed result to be used | |
39 | as a key to index some meta-information about the change between | |
40 | the two trees; | |
41 | ||
42 | - Result is different from the value produced by git 1.9 and older | |
43 | or produced when an "unstable" hash (see --unstable below) is | |
44 | configured - even when used on a diff output taken without any use | |
45 | of "-O<orderfile>", thereby making existing databases storing such | |
46 | "unstable" or historical patch-ids unusable. | |
47 | ||
48 | This is the default if patchid.stable is set to true. | |
49 | ||
50 | --unstable:: | |
51 | Use an "unstable" hash as the patch ID. With this option, | |
52 | the result produced is compatible with the patch-id value produced | |
53 | by git 1.9 and older. Users with pre-existing databases storing | |
54 | patch-ids produced by git 1.9 and older (who do not deal with reordered | |
55 | patches) may want to use this option. | |
56 | ||
57 | This is the default. | |
58 | ||
59 | GIT | |
60 | --- | |
61 | Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |