SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
-'git patch-id' [--stable | --unstable] < <patch>
+'git patch-id' [--stable | --unstable]
DESCRIPTION
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+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 whitespace and line numbers ignored. As such, it's "reasonably
stable", but at the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that
This is the default.
-<patch>::
- The diff to create the ID of.
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GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite