From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 07:16:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Automatically delete branches containing accepted patches?
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xok0bpgc7CwHB+vcLpODhjAkjgHq=cGZhmP+EpRvwSJzg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Lars Schneider
<larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have lots of git/git branches and once in a while some patches make it
> into git/git master. If this happens I would like to delete my branch
> with the patch automatically. That's not easily possible as the hashes
> on my branches are, of course, not the same as the hashes on git/git.
>
> How do you deal with this situation? Do you manually delete your
> branches or do you have some clever script to share?
>
> Thanks,
> Lars

You might be able to use patch-ids and git-cherry, to see if similar
patches (those with identical patch ids) are upstream. The patch id is
only calculated from the diff I believe, so it's mostly stable at
least as long as the contents didn't need to be changed to apply
upstream. It's not 100% perfect, but it might help with what you're
after?

Thanks,
Jake