Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] patch-id: document new behaviour

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:30:15 +0200

Clarify that patch ID is now a sum of hashes, not a hash.
Document --stable and --unstable flags.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email-masked]>
---

No change from v1.

 Documentation/git-patch-id.txt | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
index 312c3b1..1bc6d52 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ git-patch-id - Compute unique ID for a patch
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git patch-id' < <patch>
+'git patch-id' [--stable | --unstable] < <patch>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-A "patch ID" is nothing but a SHA-1 of the diff associated with a patch, with
-whitespace and line numbers ignored.  As such, it's "reasonably stable", but at
-the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that have the same "patch
-ID" are almost guaranteed to be the same thing.
+A "patch ID" is nothing but a sum of SHA-1 of the diff hunks associated with a
+patch, with whitespace and line numbers ignored.  As such, it's "reasonably
+stable", but at the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that
+have the same "patch ID" are almost guaranteed to be the same thing.
 
 IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits.
 
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ This can be used to make a mapping from patch ID to commit ID.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
+
+--stable::
+	Use a symmetrical sum of hashes, such that order of
+	hunks in the diff does not affect the ID.
+	This is the default.
+
+--unstable::
+	Use a non-symmetrical sum of hashes, such that order of
+	hunks in the diff affects the ID.
+	This was the default value for git 1.9 and older.
+
 <patch>::
 	The diff to create the ID of.
 
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