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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add test for commit id formatting style in commit log
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:35:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140810143500.2d556ae9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1407706081.4082.21.camel@joe-AO725>

On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:28:01 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > > Commit logs have various forms of commit id references.
> > >
> > > Try to standardize on a 12 character long lower case
> > > commit id along with a description of parentheses and
> > > the quoted subject line
> > >
> > > ie: commit 0123456789ab ("commit description")
> > 
> > Now this is in mainline, checkpatch starts complaining about my "too long"
> > (40 chars) commit IDs in commit messages :-(
> > 
> > 40 chars may be too long (but it's quick to copy-and-paste, as "git show"
> > shows that by default), but 12 sounds a bit short, as that's only 48 bits.
> 
> Right now, this test allows 12 to 16 byte length commit ids
> without emitting a warning.
> 
> Andrew wanted this test, I don't care how long the commit id
> is in the commit log.

Well, I mainly wanted to stop having to add "commit description" when
people forget it.  The length check was perhaps a bit anal.  How about
we make it "12 or more"?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-10 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20140702130210.fd40d67f0819cfb5f3e9e5ca@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found] ` <1404331746.14624.95.camel@joe-AO725>
     [not found]   ` <20140702131534.c613f55f79519b3862f79e40@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]     ` <1404338448.14741.8.camel@joe-AO725>
2014-08-10 21:08       ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Add test for commit id formatting style in commit log Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-08-10 21:28         ` Joe Perches
2014-08-10 21:35           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-08-10 21:41             ` Joe Perches

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