NAME
git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch
SYNOPSIS
git patch-id\n [--stable | --unstable | --verbatim]DESCRIPTION
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
--verbatim
This is the default if patchid.verbatim is true.--stable
This is the default if patchid.stable is set to true.--unstable
This is the default.GIT
Part of the git(1) suite