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diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt index 3e560a37e..c8bd19777 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt @@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ 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 +the fact that the patch is prefixed with the object name of the +commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal string. 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. + OPTIONS ------- <patch>:: |