Toon Claes <toon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... But on second thought, _some_ determinisn *can* be > useful, for example when different tools try to generate a change-ID for > the same source commit. Yup. And once we have such determinism for the change-ID that is given to a freshly written commit not derived from anything else, as long as different tools use the same criteria to decide when to and not to carry forward the existing change-IDs forward to a commit they newly create,