Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Require commit text and warn on long commit text lines

[pheragu@codeaurora.org]

On 2018-07-16 11:20, pheragu@codeaurora.org wrote:
> On 2018-07-13 17:08, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Fri, 2018-07-13 at 16:28 -0700, pheragu@codeaurora.org wrote:
>>> On 2018-07-13 14:46, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> > On Fri, 2018-07-13 at 14:40 -0700, Prakruthi Deepak Heragu wrote:
>>> > > Commit text is almost always necessary to explain why a change is
>>> > > needed.
>>> >
>>> > This bit seems sensible, but perhaps it should just count the
>>> > number of lines after the end of email headers and before any
>>> > Signed-off-by:/Signature line
>>> >
>>> 
>>> While committing the changes, one can just write the subject and not
>>> write
>>> the commit text at all. So, if we just count the lines between email
>>> headers
>>> and signed-off, we still do count lines which form the subject, but 
>>> the
>>> commit text is still absent. Also, subject can be longer than one 
>>> line.
>>> So,
>>> just counting lines doesn't really guarantee the presence of commit
>>> text.
>> 
>> Not true.
>> Look at $in_header_lines and $in_commit_log.
>> 
>>> > > Also, warn on commit text lines longer than 75 characters. The commit
>>> > > text
>>> > > are indented and may wrap on a terminal if they are longer than 75
>>> > > characters.
>>> >
>>> > This is already exists via
>>> >
>>> > # Check for line lengths > 75 in commit log, warn once
>>> > 		if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_long_line &&
>>> > 		    length($line) > 75 &&
>>> >
>>> 
>>> True, but this patch points out every line of the commit text that is
>>> exceeding the limit.
>> 
>> Which is bad because things like dump_stack() are added in
>> commit logs and those are already allowed to be > 75 chars.
>> 
>> Anyway, something like this probably works.  Please test.
>> ---
>>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 13 +++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>> index b5c875d7132b..8b5f3dae31c9 100755
>> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>> @@ -2240,6 +2240,7 @@ sub process {
>>  	my $in_header_lines = $file ? 0 : 1;
>>  	my $in_commit_log = 0;		#Scanning lines before patch
>>  	my $has_commit_log = 0;		#Encountered lines before patch
>> +	my $commit_log_lines = 0;	#Number of commit log lines
>>  	my $commit_log_possible_stack_dump = 0;
>>  	my $commit_log_long_line = 0;
>>  	my $commit_log_has_diff = 0;
>> @@ -2497,6 +2498,18 @@ sub process {
>> 
>>  		$cnt_lines++ if ($realcnt != 0);
>> 
>> +# Verify the existence of a commit log if appropriate
>> +# 2 is used because a $signature is counted in $commit_log_lines
>> +		if ($in_commit_log) {
>> +			if ($line !~ /^\s*$/) {
>> +				$commit_log_lines++;	#could be a $signature
>> +			}
>> +		} else if ($has_commit_log && $commit_log_lines < 2) {
>> +			WARN("COMMIT_MESSAGE",
>> +			     "Missing commit description - Add an appropriate one\n");
>> +			$commit_log_lines = 2;	#warn only once
>> +		}
>> +
>>  # Check if the commit log has what seems like a diff which can 
>> confuse patch
>>  		if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_has_diff &&
>>  		    (($line =~ m@^\s+diff\b.*a/[\w/]+@ &&
> I checked all the cases that I mentioned before. The change you 
> suggested works
> for every case. Would you take care of merging this fix?
Any updates on this patch? Would you take care of merging this fix?