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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	"John 'Warthog9' Hawley" <warthog9@eaglescrag.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Allow space leading blank lines in email headers
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:28:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1490250520.2041.22.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170323062057.GE17578@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 23:20 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> I do have an open question regarding how we're going about testing for the end
> of the header lines. Since we're not just testing for an empty line to separate
> headers and body, there is clearly more going on here - but I'm not sure what it
> is ... so I can't be sure this doesn't have an unintended consequence.
> 
> > +		      $rawline =~ /^(?:commit\b|from\b|[\w-]+:)/i)) {
> 
> This appears to be an unrelated change, introducing the non-capturing-group
> (?:) and dropping the superfluous .*$ postfix. Did I get that right?

Exactly right.

The capturing of the initial bit of the match and
testing of the rest of the line is simply unnecessary.

I frequently make localized changes like that when I
notice them.  It's not a problem.

cheers, Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-23  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-23  5:35 [PATCH] checkpatch: Allow space leading blank lines in email headers Joe Perches
2017-03-23  6:20 ` Darren Hart
2017-03-23  6:28   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-03-23 15:55     ` Darren Hart

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