linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/1] format-patch: add an option to record base tree info

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Message-ID: <56CC2507.7060300@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:23:19 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
Cc:	Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@...el.com>, git@...r.kernel.org,
	ying.huang@...el.com, philip.li@...el.com, julie.du@...el.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/1] format-patch: add an option to record base tree
 info

On 02/23/16 01:17, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> 
> However we are facing a new situation: in test robot POV, IMHO there
> are values to test exactly the same tree as the patch submitter.
> Otherwise the robot risks
> 
> - false negative: failing to apply and test some patches
> - false positive: sending wrong bug reports due to guessed wrong base tree
> 

Wouldn't the important part here be the git hash, rather than the tree?
 If you have the same hash then it by definition is the same contents?

	-hpa