X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-patch-id.txt;h=a7e9fd021a4cc1e467b2df7dd7e06d79a5182c7a;hb=bdd69c2f64d303f99b0f530263c3c04d329c2227;hp=723b8ccbf61e9134c31a2f07202695f03bfc9ea3;hpb=9086a18cb81f99fff943b36830396ac8c37c7e9f;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt index 723b8ccbf..a7e9fd021 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-patch-id(1) NAME ---- -git-patch-id - Generate a patch ID +git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch SYNOPSIS -------- @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- 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 +the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., 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.