[PATCH] Documentation: git-cherry uses git-patch-id
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:39
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
"Geoffrey Irving" [off-list ref] writes:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
Thanks. In manual pages, "SEE ALSO" section is a more appropriate place to do this kind of thing.Here's an improved patch.
Thanks, I'll do this instead... -- >8 -- Geoffrey Irving noticed that git-cherry talks about comparing commits without hinting how they are compared. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted> --- Documentation/git-cherry.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt
index b0468aa..d8e0a5b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- The changeset (or "diff") of each commit between the fork-point and <head> is compared against each commit between the fork-point and <upstream>. +The commits are compared with their 'patch id', obtained from linkgit:git-patch-id[1] +program. Every commit that doesn't exist in the <upstream> branch has its id (sha1) reported, prefixed by a symbol. The ones that have
@@ -56,6 +58,10 @@ OPTIONS <limit>:: Do not report commits up to (and including) limit. +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-patch-id[1] + Author ------ Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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