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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, sunshine@sunshineco•com, jrnieder@gmail•com,
	peff@peff•net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] patch-id: document new behaviour
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:54:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7g7a5ek9.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140331192604.GF12208@redhat.com> (Michael S. Tsirkin's message of "Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:26:04 +0300")

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com> writes:

> The hash used is mostly an internal implementation detail, isn't it?

Yes, but that does not mean we can break people who keep an external
database indexed with the patch-id by changing the default under
them, and "they can give --unstable option to work it around" is a
workaround, not a fix.  Without this change, they did not have to do
anything.

I would imagine that most of these people will be using the plain
vanilla "git show" output without any ordering or hunk splitting
when coming up with such a key.  A possible way forward to allow the
configuration that corresponds to "-O<orderfile>" while not breaking
the existing users could be to make the "patch-id --stable" kick in
automatically (of course, do this only when the user did not give
the "--unstable" command line option to override) when we see the
orderfile configuration in the repository, or when we see that the
incoming patch looks like reordered (e.g. has multiple "diff --git"
header lines that refer to the same path, or the set of files
mentioned by the "diff --git" lines are not in ascending order),
perhaps?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-30 18:09 [PATCH v3 1/3] patch-id: make it stable against hunk reordering Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-30 18:09 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] patch-id: document new behaviour Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-31 19:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 19:26     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-31 19:54       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-03-31 20:42         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-04-02 18:18           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-02 19:02             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-04-03 15:42               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-30 18:09 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] patch-id-test: test --stable and --unstable flags Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-31 19:29   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 17:59 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] patch-id: make it stable against hunk reordering Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 19:04   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-31 19:35     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 22:05 ` Junio C Hamano

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