NAME
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-git-patch-id - Generate a patch ID.
+git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch
SYNOPSIS
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-'git
-patch-id' < <patch>
+'git
patch-id' < <patch>
DESCRIPTION
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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, ie two patches that have the same "patch
+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
+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 string. The first
+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.
GIT
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-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite