Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/1] format-patch: add an option to record base tree info

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:40:45 -0800

On 02/23/2016 01:49 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> So I could really respect a patch header line that said:
> tree abcdef0123456789...0123456789abcdef
> 
> Where the numbers where the truncated tree hash before and after a patch
> was applied.  That would seem to give a little bit of extra sanity
> checking in the application of git diffs as well.
> 

I would rather have the untruncated base tree ID.  The truncated file
IDs already provide the verification component, and it is *way* cheaper
to search for an untruncated ID.

	-hpa