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From: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>, linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl WARNING: Do not use whitespace before Signed-off-by:
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:30:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E663C95.4080503@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1315322125.30316.1.camel@Joe-Laptop>

On 09/06/2011 06:15 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 17:41 +0300, Antti Palosaari wrote:
>> So what is recommended way to ensure patch is correct currently?
>> a) before commit
>
> Use checkpatch.
>
>> b) after commit
>
> Make the output of the commit log look like a patch.

--format=email

But still that sounds annoying, GIT is our default tool for handling 
patches and all the other tools like checkpatch.pl should honour that 
without any tricks. Why you don't add some detection logic to 
checkpatch.pl or even some new switch like --git.

regards
Antti
-- 
http://palosaari.fi/

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-06 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-05 22:39 checkpatch.pl WARNING: Do not use whitespace before Signed-off-by: Antti Palosaari
2011-09-06  7:50 ` Bjørn Mork
2011-09-06 14:41   ` Antti Palosaari
2011-09-06 15:15     ` Joe Perches
2011-09-06 15:30       ` Antti Palosaari [this message]
2011-09-06 16:10         ` Joe Perches
2011-09-06 16:23           ` Antti Palosaari
2011-09-06 16:31             ` Joe Perches

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