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<p>A "patch ID" is nothing but a SHA1 of the diff associated with a patch, with\r
whitespace and line numbers ignored. As such, it's "reasonably stable", but at\r
-the same time also reasonably unique, ie two patches that have the same "patch\r
+the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that have the same "patch\r
ID" are almost guaranteed to be the same thing.</p>\r
<p>IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits.</p>\r
<p>When dealing with git-diff-tree output, it takes advantage of\r
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