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diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt index 31efc587ee..442caff8a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt @@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git patch-id' [--stable | --unstable] < <patch> +'git patch-id' [--stable | --unstable] DESCRIPTION ----------- +Read a patch from the standard input and compute the patch ID for it. + A "patch ID" is nothing but a sum of SHA-1 of the file diffs associated with a patch, with whitespace and line numbers ignored. As such, it's "reasonably stable", but at the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that @@ -54,9 +56,6 @@ OPTIONS This is the default. -<patch>:: - The diff to create the ID of. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |