From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 07:51:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Make patch-id more flexible?
Message-ID: <xmqqlgiwm7x1.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171124073327.GA15188@vmlxhi-102.adit-jv.com>

Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com> writes:

> file-names. Here comes my actual question. Would it be conceptually fine
> to implement some `git patch-id` parameter, which would allow ignoring
> the file-names (or reducing those to their `basename`) before computing
> the patch id? Or would it break the concept of patch id (which shouldn't
> accept variations)?

My gut feeling is that a tool like that would be fine as long as it
is local to your organization and is not called "git patch-id"; it
may be useful in the situation you described, but as you mention
above, it feels that it is differnt from what a patch-id is.