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>
17 years ago · a7052d3521
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--- a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt
@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ DESCRIPTION
				@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 The changeset (or "diff") of each commit between the fork-point and <head>
 is compared against each commit between the fork-point and <upstream>.
+The commits are compared with their 'patch id', obtained from linkgit:git-patch-id[1]
+program.

 Every commit that doesn't exist in the <upstream> branch
 has its id (sha1) reported, prefixed by a symbol.  The ones that have
@ -56,6 +58,10 @@ OPTIONS
				@@ -56,6 +58,10 @@ OPTIONS
 <limit>::
 	Do not report commits up to (and including) limit.

+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:git-patch-id[1]
+
 Author
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 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>