[PATCH] Documentation/git-patch-id: give working code example
From: Michael J Gruber <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-24 12:57:30
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
As it stands, the documentation gives the impression that git diff-tree <treeish> | git patch-id would be a working invocation of git patch-id, leaving the novice user in the dark. Make it explicit that 'git diff-tree -p' would be the command to use. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <redacted> --- Documentation/git-patch-id.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
index cf71fba..67f8e28 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ 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. -When dealing with 'git diff-tree' output, it takes advantage of +When dealing with 'git diff-tree -p' 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 strings. The first string is the patch ID, and the second string is the commit ID.
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