ls-tree: further cleanup to parallel ls-files.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
index b6fa2a8b399adc80bfa9acbc02c7f5cf5fb88aa6..c8bd1977790b2611d4b7974fc3a716d99b888a74 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ ID" are almost guaranteed to be the same thing.
 
 IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits.
 
+When dealing with git-diff-tree 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 string.  The first
+string is the patch ID, and the second string is the commit ID.
+This can be used to make a mapping from patch ID to commit ID.
+
 OPTIONS
 -------
 <patch>::
@@ -33,5 +39,5 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite