From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-patch-id.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt index 723b8cc..5389097 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt @@ -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. -- 1.3.3.g86f7 - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html