Documentation: git-cherry uses git-patch-id
Geoffrey Irving noticed that git-cherry talks about comparing commits without hinting how they are compared. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 28, 2008 at 17:03 UTC
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The changeset (or "diff") of each commit between the fork-point and <head>
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is compared against each commit between the fork-point and <upstream>.
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+The commits are compared with their 'patch id', obtained from linkgit:git-patch-id[1]
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+program.
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Every commit that doesn't exist in the <upstream> branch
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has its id (sha1) reported, prefixed by a symbol. The ones that have
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<limit>::
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Do not report commits up to (and including) limit.
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+SEE ALSO
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+--------
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+linkgit:git-patch-id[1]
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Author
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Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>