Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> So, I'm wondering if the search indexing code of public-inbox >> should s/^$/ /mgs before feeding stuff to `git patch-id'; and/or >> if `git patch-id' should be assuming empty lines and lines with a >> single SP are the same... Another potential source of issues (not for the patch from René that was used as an example) is that a patch producer can use different diff algorithm from the setting you would use to index resulting commits via "git show | git patch-id". $ git show -U5 | git patch-id $ git show | git patch-id likely result in different patch IDs. The --patience and the --histogram options affect how common lines are matched up, again affecting the shape of the patches you compute patch-ids over.