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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] checkpatch: false positive for commits with quote characters
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 16:13:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151204001318.GA57739@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151117180336.GE8456@google.com>

Ping? I've hit some different false positives today on the same rule.
I'll stop bothering to report them if no one cares.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:03:36AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:48:27AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 14:43 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > What is the Blessed (TM) style for referencing commits that have quote
> > > characters in their subject line? e.g., this commit:
> > > 
> > > commit 43163022927b6e7d202a7e6f939c3f392465494d
> > > Author: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> > > Date:   Tue May 19 14:38:22 2015 -0700
> > > 
> > >     mtd: m25p80: allow arbitrary OF matching for "jedec,spi-nor"
> > > 
> > > Checkpatch reports false positive errors like this:
> > > 
> > >   ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of
> > >   sha1> ("")'
> > 
> > Hi Brian.
> > 
> > What version of checkpatch are you using?
> > 
> > Using linux-next:
> > 
> > $ git log --stat -p -1 --format=email 43163022927b6e7d202a7e6f939c3f392465494d | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict -
> 
> I was referring to running checkpatch on this:
> 
>   https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/16/826
> 
> which *referenced* commit 43163022927b6e7d202a7e6f939c3f392465494d.
> Sorry if that wasn't clear.
> 
> See below,
> Brian
> 
> $ curl http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/545234/mbox/ | scripts/checkpatch.pl -
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
> 100  3741    0  3741    0     0  11525      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 11510
> ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> ("<title line>")' - ie: 'Commit 43163022927b ("mtd: m25p80: allow arbitrary OF matching for "jedec,spi-nor"")'
> #17: 
> Commit 43163022927b ("mtd: m25p80: allow arbitrary OF matching for
> 
> total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 29 lines checked
> 
> Your patch has style problems, please review.
> 
> NOTE: Ignored message types: FILE_PATH_CHANGES
> 
> NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report
>       them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-04  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-16 22:43 [BUG] checkpatch: false positive for commits with quote characters Brian Norris
2015-11-17 17:48 ` Joe Perches
2015-11-17 18:03   ` Brian Norris
2015-12-04  0:13     ` Brian Norris [this message]
2015-12-04  0:29       ` Joe Perches
2015-12-04  0:36         ` Joe Perches
2015-12-04  1:39           ` Brian Norris

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