From 89d4f3af16a95fe1b6abe8c9f43fb7fb6826dadf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 07:28:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: patch-id: spell out the git-diff-tree(1) form You specifically need `--patch` since the default output is a raw diff. Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc b/Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc index abd02fccdc..61498def31 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that have the same The main usecase for this command is to look for likely duplicate commits. -When dealing with `git diff-tree` output, it takes advantage of +When dealing with `git diff-tree --patch` 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.