Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: do not test/warn of leading whitespace before signature tags

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 23:48 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
> 
> Commit 2011247 introduced additional style checks for signature tags in
> patches which is good.  Unfortunately, now whenever patches are checked
> by piping the output of 'git show' or 'stg show' through checkpatch it
> warns not to use whitespace before all signature tags since these (and the
> rest of the patch description) are indented.  Remove this test/warning.

I think this is not a good idea.

checkpatch is meant for patches not git log output.
indenting signatures can cause other problems later.

I think you can avoid this easily by using checkpatch
option --ignore=BAD_SIGN_OFF when using git log output
as input.

You could also use:

git log --format="commit %H%nAuthor: %an <%ae>%nDate:   %aD%n%n%s%n%n%b"

so that you get the current default --format=medium
output without indenting the commit log body.