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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-05-28 17:03:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-05-28 17:03:46 -0700 |
| commit | a7052d3521de1210026bf5a29d57c37ee7800166 (patch) | |
| tree | 6415dda5a7b68f59a78bd642a8eff9c7cc3de91c | |
| parent | Manual subsection to refer to other pages is SEE ALSO (diff) | |
| download | tgif-a7052d3521de1210026bf5a29d57c37ee7800166.tar.xz | |
Documentation: git-cherry uses git-patch-id
Geoffrey Irving noticed that git-cherry talks about comparing commits without
hinting how they are compared.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cherry.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt index b0468aa746..d8e0a5b843 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- The changeset (or "diff") of each commit between the fork-point and <head> is compared against each commit between the fork-point and <upstream>. +The commits are compared with their 'patch id', obtained from linkgit:git-patch-id[1] +program. Every commit that doesn't exist in the <upstream> branch has its id (sha1) reported, prefixed by a symbol. The ones that have @@ -56,6 +58,10 @@ OPTIONS <limit>:: Do not report commits up to (and including) limit. +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-patch-id[1] + Author ------ Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> |