6 git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch
11 'git patch-id' [--stable | --unstable | --verbatim]
15 Read a patch from the standard input and compute the patch ID for it.
17 A "patch ID" is nothing but a sum of SHA-1 of the file diffs associated with a
18 patch, with line numbers ignored. As such, it's "reasonably stable", but at
19 the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that have the same
20 "patch ID" are almost guaranteed to be the same thing.
22 The main usecase for this command is to look for likely duplicate commits.
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.
34 Calculate the patch-id of the input as it is given, do not strip
37 This is the default if patchid.verbatim is true.
40 Use a "stable" sum of hashes as the patch ID. With this option:
41 - Reordering file diffs that make up a patch does not affect the ID.
42 In particular, two patches produced by comparing the same two trees
43 with two different settings for "-O<orderfile>" result in the same
44 patch ID signature, thereby allowing the computed result to be used
45 as a key to index some meta-information about the change between
48 - Result is different from the value produced by git 1.9 and older
49 or produced when an "unstable" hash (see --unstable below) is
50 configured - even when used on a diff output taken without any use
51 of "-O<orderfile>", thereby making existing databases storing such
52 "unstable" or historical patch-ids unusable.
54 - All whitespace within the patch is ignored and does not affect the id.
56 This is the default if patchid.stable is set to true.
59 Use an "unstable" hash as the patch ID. With this option,
60 the result produced is compatible with the patch-id value produced
61 by git 1.9 and older and whitespace is ignored. Users with pre-existing
62 databases storing patch-ids produced by git 1.9 and older (who do not deal
63 with reordered patches) may want to use this option.
69 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite