"Jerry Zhang via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The 'base commit' is shown as "base-commit: " followed by the 40-hex of > the commit object name. A 'prerequisite patch' is shown as > "prerequisite-patch-id: " followed by the 40-hex 'patch id', which can > -be obtained by passing the patch through the `git patch-id --stable` > -command. > +be obtained by passing the patch (generated with -U3 --full-index) through > +the `git patch-id --stable` command. This is not incorrect per-se, but I wonder how much it would help or mislead people in practice. I understand that the update means well to help those who complain "'patch-id' produces wrong result when I feed the output of 'git diff -U1'" by making them suspect that their -U1 may be the culprit. But the new description does not cover everything that can affect the resulting patch ID (the choice of --diff-algorithm affects how common lines are matched up between the preimage and the postimage, for example). So, I dunno.
