Re: [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add support to check 'Fixes:' tag format

Markus Elfring
2020-05-03T14:54:55Z

>>> + "Please use git commit description style '$prefix <$sha1_length_min+ chars of sha1> (\"<$title>\")' - ie: '${init_char}" . substr($prefix, 1) .
>>> + " $id (\"$description\")'\n" . $diagnostics . $herecurr);
>>
>> Can error diagnostics become multi-line?
> The length of "$description" is unknown, it is difficult to
> cook the error message into pretty format with any length of
> "$description", so let's keep it in current way.

How do you think about a message variant like the following?

+ "Please use git commit description style:\n$prefix <$sha1_length_min+ chars of sha1> (\"<$title>\")\n" . substr($prefix, 1)
+ . "i. e.: '${init_char} $id (\"$description\")\n"
+ . $diagnostics . $herecurr);

Regards,
Markus