On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I have lots of git/git branches and once in a while some patches make it > into git/git master. If this happens I would like to delete my branch > with the patch automatically. That's not easily possible as the hashes > on my branches are, of course, not the same as the hashes on git/git. > > How do you deal with this situation? Do you manually delete your > branches or do you have some clever script to share? > > Thanks, > Lars You might be able to use patch-ids and git-cherry, to see if similar patches (those with identical patch ids) are upstream. The patch id is only calculated from the diff I believe, so it's mostly stable at least as long as the contents didn't need to be changed to apply upstream. It's not 100% perfect, but it might help with what you're after? Thanks, Jake
