core: Add API (and standard concept for) content checksum #1449
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There are a few cases for knowing whether a commit has identical
content to another commit. Some people want to do a "promotion workflow",
where the content of a commit on a tesitng branch is then "promoted"
to a production branch with
ostree commit --tree=ref
.Another use case I just hit in rpm-ostree deals with
jigdo where we're
importing RPMs on both the client and server, and will be using the
content checksum, since the client/server cases inject different metadata
into the commit object.
Closes: #1315