From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:40:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/1] format-patch: add an option to record base tree info
Message-ID: <56CD0A1D.9050207@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <87bn77hzbp.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>

On 02/23/2016 01:49 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> So I could really respect a patch header line that said:
> tree abcdef0123456789...0123456789abcdef
> 
> Where the numbers where the truncated tree hash before and after a patch
> was applied.  That would seem to give a little bit of extra sanity
> checking in the application of git diffs as well.
> 

I would rather have the untruncated base tree ID.  The truncated file
IDs already provide the verification component, and it is *way* cheaper
to search for an untruncated ID.

	-hpa