Re: [PATCH 0/2] format-patch: introduce option to suppress commit hashes

2015-12-07 Thread Junio C Hamano
"brian m. carlson" writes: > The hash of the source file isn't generally as much of a problem, > because the patch tends to change, even incidentally (line numbers and > such), when the hash of the file changes. It's also something that we > have in our history, whereas the temporary branch we r

Re: [PATCH 0/2] format-patch: introduce option to suppress commit hashes

2015-12-06 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 06:49:14PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "brian m. carlson" writes: > > > git format-patch is often used to create patches that are then stored in > > version control or displayed with diff. Having the commit hash in the > > "From " line usually just creates diff noise i

Re: [PATCH 0/2] format-patch: introduce option to suppress commit hashes

2015-12-06 Thread Junio C Hamano
"brian m. carlson" writes: > git format-patch is often used to create patches that are then stored in > version control or displayed with diff. Having the commit hash in the > "From " line usually just creates diff noise in these cases, so this > series introduces --no-hash to set that to all ze

[PATCH 0/2] format-patch: introduce option to suppress commit hashes

2015-12-06 Thread brian m. carlson
git format-patch is often used to create patches that are then stored in version control or displayed with diff. Having the commit hash in the "From " line usually just creates diff noise in these cases, so this series introduces --no-hash to set that to all zeros. The idea for this series came f