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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andreas Brauchli <a.brauchli@elementarea.net>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow URL >80 chars
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:39:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1511015995.31022.11.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1510999663.4806.28.camel@elementarea.net>

On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 11:07 +0100, Andreas Brauchli wrote:
> Is the patch acceptable if it only catches URL with protocol specifiers
> foo:// ? That would catch most cases and doesn't show false positives:
> $ git grep -E '://\S{75}.*' -- '*.[ch]'

Of course. but I suggest using a prefix like

\b[\w\.\+\-]+://

so the URL scheme is properly described.

It might be best if there was some generic mechanism
to identify possible URIs and not just URLs instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier

      reply	other threads:[~2017-11-18 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-17 15:56 [PATCH] checkpatch: allow URL >80 chars Andreas Brauchli
2017-11-18  5:21 ` Joe Perches
2017-11-18 10:07   ` Andreas Brauchli
2017-11-18 14:39     ` Joe Perches [this message]

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