[RFC] Updating patchwork patches on commit

[Andreas Schwab]

On Dez 08 2020, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:

> On 12/7/20 11:41 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, DJ Delorie via Libc-alpha wrote:
>> 
>>> Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org> writes:
>>>> Well your NSS patches did match and auto-close; in fact the v4 of 3/6 in
>>>> that patchset also got closed as Committed because diff-wise it was
>>>> identical to v5 3/6 :)
>>>
>>> Ah, patchwork hash != git hash.  Nevermind ;-)
>> A previous discussion suggested "git patch-id" was appropriate to use
>> for
>> this purpose, but I don't know if it's what patchwork actually uses.
>> 
>
> It doesn't; it has it's own hashing function where it normalizes spaces
> and newline chars to avoid false negatives.

Like git patch-id?

Andreas.

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