Re: gitk shows an empty line between "Comments" and changed files

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Oct 28, 2005, 09:13 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4q72xavz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1130463389.2186.14.camel@dv>

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

> git-patch-id is only used by git-cherry.  git-cherry writes the second
> SHA1 to some files in a temporary directory, but it never reads those
> files, it only checks that they exist.

I do not oppose dropping the commit-id line from the default output, but having it optionally available would be useful in one application. Somebody _could_ write a tool that does something like:

    git-rev-list ^$old_head $new_head |
    git-diff-tree -p -m --stdin --with-commit-ids |
    git-patch-id

to cache the patch-id --> commit-id mappings. If this were kept on the upstream repo for public query, it would be useful for you to find out if your favorite patch as already been merged. For example, gitweb could have an query page to let you submit a patch-id and return the commit (or "no such patch merged yet").