X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-patch-id.txt;h=c8bd1977790b2611d4b7974fc3a716d99b888a74;hb=df45467ec98aa1c532196732c96a62589223353e;hp=3e560a37e835bb59f12754591c5c32bac671f57c;hpb=0493a3fd5204a36bc961a8611770ddb9ec1ed8ed;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt index 3e560a37..c8bd1977 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 ------- ::