SYNOPSIS
--------
-[verse]
-'git patch-id' [--stable | --unstable | --verbatim]
+[synopsis]
+git patch-id [--stable | --unstable | --verbatim]
DESCRIPTION
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The main usecase for this command is to look for likely duplicate commits.
-When dealing with 'git diff-tree' output, it takes advantage of
+When dealing with `git diff-tree` output, it takes advantage of
the fact that the patch is prefixed with the object name of the
commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal strings. The first
string is the patch ID, and the second string is the commit ID.
OPTIONS
-------
---verbatim::
+`--verbatim`::
Calculate the patch-id of the input as it is given, do not strip
any whitespace.
+
-This is the default if patchid.verbatim is true.
+This is the default if `patchid.verbatim` is `true`.
---stable::
+`--stable`::
Use a "stable" sum of hashes as the patch ID. With this option:
+
--
- Reordering file diffs that make up a patch does not affect the ID.
In particular, two patches produced by comparing the same two trees
- with two different settings for "-O<orderfile>" result in the same
+ with two different settings for `-O<orderfile>` result in the same
patch ID signature, thereby allowing the computed result to be used
as a key to index some meta-information about the change between
the two trees;
- Result is different from the value produced by git 1.9 and older
- or produced when an "unstable" hash (see --unstable below) is
+ or produced when an "unstable" hash (see `--unstable` below) is
configured - even when used on a diff output taken without any use
- of "-O<orderfile>", thereby making existing databases storing such
+ of `-O<orderfile>`, thereby making existing databases storing such
"unstable" or historical patch-ids unusable.
- All whitespace within the patch is ignored and does not affect the id.
--
+
-This is the default if patchid.stable is set to true.
+This is the default if `patchid.stable` is set to `true`.
---unstable::
+`--unstable`::
Use an "unstable" hash as the patch ID. With this option,
the result produced is compatible with the patch-id value produced
by git 1.9 and older and whitespace is ignored. Users with pre-existing