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NAME
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-git-patch-id - Generate a patch ID.
+git-patch-id - Generate a patch ID
SYNOPSIS
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IOW, you can use this thing 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 string. 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
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<patch>::