"Geoffrey Irving" <irving@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Thanks. >> >> In manual pages, "SEE ALSO" section is a more appropriate place to do this >> kind of thing. > > Here's an improved patch. Thanks, I'll do this instead... -- >8 -- Geoffrey Irving noticed that git-cherry talks about comparing commits without hinting how they are compared. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-cherry.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt index b0468aa..d8e0a5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- The changeset (or "diff") of each commit between the fork-point and <head> is compared against each commit between the fork-point and <upstream>. +The commits are compared with their 'patch id', obtained from linkgit:git-patch-id[1] +program. Every commit that doesn't exist in the <upstream> branch has its id (sha1) reported, prefixed by a symbol. The ones that have @@ -56,6 +58,10 @@ OPTIONS <limit>:: Do not report commits up to (and including) limit. +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-patch-id[1] + Author ------ Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> -- 1.5.6.rc0.43.g823ea -- 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
