From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:43:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] patch-id: Add support for mbox format
Message-ID: <7vfx2ubxz1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BC8DC0F.5010007@gnu.org>

Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:

> I use this when I had to edit the file-being-sent, e.g. to add cover
> letters or an introduction to a patch series.  Since some time passes
> between format-patch and send-email, I want to test that the file I'm
> sending is exactly what I have in the repository, and that I'm not
> submitting the wrong series.

Ok, that is what I missed when I mentioned ignore-if-in-upstream, iow, I
thought "patch-cmp" were merely to check for failed detection of
duplicates by format-patch.  If you are editing the mbox file and let the
patches sit there while origin/master may be progressing, then that is an
entirely different story.