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NAME top

   git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch

SYNOPSIS top

   _git patch-id_ [--stable | --unstable | --verbatim]

DESCRIPTION top

   Read a patch from the standard input and compute the patch ID for
   it.

   A "patch ID" is nothing but a sum of SHA-1 of the file diffs
   associated with a patch, with 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.

   The main usecase for this command is 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 top

   --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.

   --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 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 configured - even when used on a diff output
           taken without any use 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.

   --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 databases storing patch-ids produced by git 1.9
       and older (who do not deal with reordered patches) may want to
       use this option.

           This is the default.

GIT top

   Part of the [git(1)](../man1/git.1.html) suite

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