IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits.
-When dealing with 'git-diff-tree' output, it takes advantage of
+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
+commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal strings. 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.
<patch>::
The diff to create the ID of.
-Author
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-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
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-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite