Darcs now shows the internal hash for each patch in a format like:

patch f4128969c4700a0b34414390d04159cb6b11b4e5
Author: bob <bob>
Date:   Sun May 21 22:44:55 NZST 2017
  * patch name
  - further details

Adding the regex "\\|^patch \\(?1:[.0-9a-f]+\\)" to log-view-message-re seems to be sufficient to use the hash.

cheers
Rohan
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