From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:30:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] patch-id: Add support for mbox format
Message-ID: <7vk4s7cks4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1271434948-14134-1-git-send-email-bonzini@gnu.org>

Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:

> I have an alias that takes two arguments and compares their patch IDs.
> I would like to use to make sure I've tested exactly what I submit
> (patch by patch), like
>
>    git patch-cmp origin/master.. file-being-sent
>
> However, I cannot do that because git patch-id is fooled by the
> "-- " trailer that git format-patch puts.
>
> This patch adds a bit of lookahead to git patch-id in order to detect
> the trailer and split the patch when it comes.  In addition, commit
> ids in the "From " lines are considered and printed in the output.

How well does this interact with mime encoded output?

I somehow have a feeling that this is solving a wrong problem.