Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > file-names. Here comes my actual question. Would it be conceptually fine > to implement some `git patch-id` parameter, which would allow ignoring > the file-names (or reducing those to their `basename`) before computing > the patch id? Or would it break the concept of patch id (which shouldn't > accept variations)? My gut feeling is that a tool like that would be fine as long as it is local to your organization and is not called "git patch-id"; it may be useful in the situation you described, but as you mention above, it feels that it is differnt from what a patch-id is.