[Armbian build PR] - RFC: DO NOT MERGE: patching: rewrite: try to stabilize patch `index` stanzas as well as From lines

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RFC: DO NOT MERGE: patching: rewrite: try to stabilize patch index stanzas as well as From lines

• RFC: DO NOT MERGE: patching: rewrite: try to stabilize patch index stanzas as well as From lines
  • git format-patch --zero-commit doesn't affect index xxx...yyy lines, only From:
    • so use the classy "use a regex with a callback" solution as git format-patch doesn't offer one
  • this will make all patches change when rewritten, but hopefully for the last time !
  • not sure what other impacts this might have though - git am might not work any more?
  • we need to preserve index 000000000000..xxx as zeros, which indicate new file creation, thus:
    • new file creations are rewritten as index 000000000000..111111111111
    • non-creations are rewritten as index 111111111111..222222222222
• DO NOT MERGE: Example rewrite of a patch with both file change & file creation

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