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| author | A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> | 2005-08-26 18:18:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-08-26 20:53:50 -0700 |
| commit | 52a22d1e726f91b0ba4ea0afb7cfbfaaf624127b (patch) | |
| tree | b815188ded9ace02c6b0bce9a07451b44e0df1f5 /Documentation/git-patch-id.txt | |
| parent | 85002315798dfcd28da6120ac3a461ca3fadfd2e (diff) | |
| download | git-52a22d1e726f91b0ba4ea0afb7cfbfaaf624127b.tar.gz git-52a22d1e726f91b0ba4ea0afb7cfbfaaf624127b.tar.xz | |
[PATCH] Subject: [PATCH] Add some documentation.
Add some documentation.
Text taken from the the commit messages and the command sources.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-patch-id.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-patch-id.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt index 9a4abd124..b6fa2a8b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt @@ -3,26 +3,25 @@ git-patch-id(1) NAME ---- -git-patch-id - Some git command not yet documented. - +git-patch-id - Generate a patch ID. SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-patch-id' [ --option ] <args>... +'git-patch-id' < <patch> DESCRIPTION ----------- -Does something not yet documented. +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 +ID" are almost guaranteed to be the same thing. +IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits. OPTIONS ------- ---option:: - Some option not yet documented. - -<args>...:: - Some argument not yet documented. - +<patch>:: + The diff to create the ID of. Author ------ |