Change the manual page for git-patch-id(1) to mention in the SYNOPSIS that you can pipe in the git-log(1) output. The manual page only mentioned that you could pipe in `< patch`, I had to grep the test suite to find that you could do things like `git log -p -1 | git patch-id`. Signed-off-by: Ãvar ArnfjÃrà Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-patch-id.txt | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt index 4dae139..fec2cf3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- 'git patch-id' < <patch> +'git log --pretty=format:%H -p | git patch-id' + DESCRIPTION ----------- A "patch ID" is nothing but a SHA1 of the diff associated with a patch, with -- 1.7.2.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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