Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> writes:
>> So, I'm wondering if the search indexing code of public-inbox
>> should s/^$/ /mgs before feeding stuff to `git patch-id'; and/or
>> if `git patch-id' should be assuming empty lines and lines with a
>> single SP are the same...
Another potential source of issues (not for the patch from René that
was used as an example) is that a patch producer can use different
diff algorithm from the setting you would use to index resulting
commits via "git show | git patch-id".
$ git show -U5 | git patch-id
$ git show | git patch-id
likely result in different patch IDs.
The --patience and the --histogram options affect how common lines
are matched up, again affecting the shape of the patches you compute
patch-ids over.
