[PATCH 5/6] doc: patch-id: spell out the git-diff-tree(1) form

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Kkristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>

Date

Jan 8, 2026, 06:28 UTC

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<git_diff-tree_--patch.1b0@msgid.xyz>

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From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>

You specifically need `--patch` since the default output is a raw diff.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
---
 Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc b/Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc
index abd02fccdc0..61498def317 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.adoc
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that have the same
 
 The main usecase for this command is to look for likely duplicate commits.
 
-When dealing with `git diff-tree` output, it takes advantage of
+When dealing with `git diff-tree --patch` output, it takes advantage of
 the fact that the patch is prefixed with the object name of the
 commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal strings.  The first
 string is the patch ID, and the second string is the commit ID.

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2.52.0.421.gc32ead4fc78