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diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt index 723b8ccbf6..90268f02e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt @@ -3,24 +3,25 @@ git-patch-id(1) NAME ---- -git-patch-id - Generate a patch ID +git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-patch-id' < <patch> +[verse] +'git patch-id' < <patch> DESCRIPTION ----------- A "patch ID" is nothing but a SHA1 of the diff associated with a patch, with whitespace and line numbers ignored. As such, it's "reasonably stable", but at -the same time also reasonably unique, ie two patches that have the same "patch +the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that have the same "patch ID" are almost guaranteed to be the same thing. IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits. -When dealing with git-diff-tree output, it takes advantage of +When dealing with 'git diff-tree' output, it takes advantage of the fact that the patch is prefixed with the object name of the -commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal string. The first +commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal strings. The first string is the patch ID, and the second string is the commit ID. This can be used to make a mapping from patch ID to commit ID. @@ -29,15 +30,6 @@ OPTIONS <patch>:: The diff to create the ID of. -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - GIT --- -Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite - +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |