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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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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.
GIT
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-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite