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diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc b/Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc index 1d15fa45d5..45da0f27ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc @@ -33,27 +33,30 @@ OPTIONS --verbatim:: Calculate the patch-id of the input as it is given, do not strip any whitespace. - - This is the default if patchid.verbatim is true. ++ +This is the default if patchid.verbatim is true. --stable:: Use a "stable" sum of hashes as the patch ID. With this option: - - Reordering file diffs that make up a patch does not affect the ID. - In particular, two patches produced by comparing the same two trees - with two different settings for "-O<orderfile>" result in the same - patch ID signature, thereby allowing the computed result to be used - as a key to index some meta-information about the change between - the two trees; - - - Result is different from the value produced by git 1.9 and older - or produced when an "unstable" hash (see --unstable below) is - configured - even when used on a diff output taken without any use - of "-O<orderfile>", thereby making existing databases storing such - "unstable" or historical patch-ids unusable. - - - All whitespace within the patch is ignored and does not affect the id. - - This is the default if patchid.stable is set to true. ++ +-- +- Reordering file diffs that make up a patch does not affect the ID. + In particular, two patches produced by comparing the same two trees + with two different settings for "-O<orderfile>" result in the same + patch ID signature, thereby allowing the computed result to be used + as a key to index some meta-information about the change between + the two trees; + +- Result is different from the value produced by git 1.9 and older + or produced when an "unstable" hash (see --unstable below) is + configured - even when used on a diff output taken without any use + of "-O<orderfile>", thereby making existing databases storing such + "unstable" or historical patch-ids unusable. + +- All whitespace within the patch is ignored and does not affect the id. +-- ++ +This is the default if patchid.stable is set to true. --unstable:: Use an "unstable" hash as the patch ID. With this option, @@ -61,8 +64,8 @@ OPTIONS by git 1.9 and older and whitespace is ignored. Users with pre-existing databases storing patch-ids produced by git 1.9 and older (who do not deal with reordered patches) may want to use this option. - - This is the default. ++ +This is the default. GIT --- |