GIT-PATCH-ID(1) Git Manual GIT-PATCH-ID(1)
NAME
git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch
SYNOPSIS
git patch-id < <patch>
DESCRIPTION
A "patch ID" is nothing but a SHA1 of the diff associated with a patch, with whitespace
and line numbers ignored. As such, it's "reasonably stable", but at the same time also
reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that have the same "patch ID" are almost guaranteed
to be the same thing.
IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits.
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. This can be used
to make a mapping from patch ID to commit ID.
OPTIONS
<patch>
The diff to create the ID of.
AUTHOR
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds AT osdl.org[1]>
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git AT vger.org[2]>.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
NOTES
1. torvalds AT osdl.org
mailto:torvalds AT osdl.org
2. git AT vger.org
mailto:git AT vger.org
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