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Re: Generated patches change over time
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Maxim Cournoyer |
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Re: Generated patches change over time |
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Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:48:37 +0000 |
Hello!
>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>Lesson learned: we should not rely at all on generated patches because
>they are bound to change frequently (version string at the end, length
>of commit hash prefixes, etc.) It’s probably worse than tarballs
>generated by Git hosting services.
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>So we should probably work towards using local copies of patches,
>unless
>we find that the generated patches do not include any variable bits.
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Maybe we could pass the patches through some sanitizer to strip any metadata? I
guess the content itself shouldn't change?
Maxim