On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 09:58:41AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Patch id changes if you reorder hunks in a diff. > > If you reorder hunks, the patch should no longer apply [*1*], so a > feature to make patch-id stable across such move would have no > practical use ;-), but I am guessing you meant something else. > > Perhaps this is about using "-O <orderfile>" option, even though you > happened to have implemented the id mixing at per-hunk level? > > > [Footnote] > > *1* It has been a long time since I looked at the code, and I do not > know offhand if "git apply" has such a bug not to diagnose a hunk > for a file for an earlier part that comes later in its input stream > after seeing another hunk for the same file as a bug. If it does > not, perhaps we should. I started to remove that code, but then I recalled why I did it like this. There is a good reason. Yes, you can't simply reorder hunks just like this. But you can get the same effect by prefixing the header: --- x.txt 2014-03-27 19:31:18.166115449 +0200 +++ y.txt 2014-03-27 19:31:46.731116998 +0200 @@ -30,8 +31,6 @@ a a a a -a -b b b b @@ -60,6 +59,7 @@ b b b b +Y b b b --- x.txt 2014-03-27 19:31:18.166115449 +0200 +++ y.txt 2014-03-27 19:31:46.731116998 +0200 @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ a a a a +X a a a Is equivalent to --- x.txt 2014-03-27 19:31:18.166115449 +0200 +++ y.txt 2014-03-27 19:31:46.731116998 +0200 @@ -30,8 +31,6 @@ a a a a -a -b b b b @@ -60,6 +59,7 @@ b b b b +Y b b b --- x.txt 2014-03-27 19:31:18.166115449 +0200 +++ y.txt 2014-03-27 19:31:46.731116998 +0200 @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ a a a a +X a a a And this works fine with regular tools like patch so I think it should work for git too, anything else would be surprising. -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html