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diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt index bb8a079254..90268f02e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-patch-id' < <patch> +[verse] +'git patch-id' < <patch> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -18,9 +19,9 @@ 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. @@ -29,14 +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 linkgit:git[1] suite |