doc: patch-id: --verbatim locks in --stable
The default `--unstable` is a legacy format that predates `--stable`. That’s why 2871f4d4 (builtin: patch-id: add --verbatim as a command mode, 2022-10-24) made `--verbatim` lock in[1] `--stable`: Users of --unstable mainly care about compatibility with old git versions, which unstripping the whitespace would break. Thus there isn't a usecase for the combination of --verbatim and --unstable, and we don't expose this so as to not add maintainence burden. † 1: imply `--stable`, disallow `--unstable` Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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`--verbatim`::
Calculate the patch ID of the input as it is given, do not strip
- any whitespace.
+ any whitespace. Implies `--stable` and forbids `--unstable`.
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This is the default if `patchid.verbatim` is `true`.