doc: don't claim that cherry calls patch-id
The id is already different for binary files. The hash used is an implementation detail, so let's just document how diffs are compared. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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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
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-the 'git patch-id' program.
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+The diffs are compared after removing any whitespace and line numbers.
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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