| git-patch-id(1) | |
| =============== | |
| NAME | |
| ---- | |
| git-patch-id - Generate a patch ID. | |
| 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, ie 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. | |
| OPTIONS | |
| ------- | |
| <patch>:: | |
| The diff to create the ID of. | |
| Author | |
| ------ | |
| Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | |
| Documentation | |
| -------------- | |
| Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. | |
| GIT | |
| --- | |
| Part of the link:git.html[git] suite | |