Re: [RFC PATCH] scripts/checkpatch: roll diff tweaking into checkpatch itself

[Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>]

On 6/7/21 2:18 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Rather than relying on external tweaks lets just do it inside
> checkpatch's direct commitish handling which is QEMU specific code
> anyway.
>
> Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   .gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml | 3 ---
>   .patchew.yml                   | 3 ---
ah, there is the patchew configuration file.
>   scripts/checkpatch.pl          | 7 ++++++-
>   3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>

>
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml
> index 7e685c6a65..c5fa4fce26 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml
> @@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ check-patch:
>     needs:
>       job: amd64-centos8-container
>     script:
> -    - git config --local diff.renamelimit 0
> -    - git config --local diff.renames True
> -    - git config --local diff.algorithm histogram
>       - .gitlab-ci.d/check-patch.py
>     variables:
>       GIT_DEPTH: 1000
> diff --git a/.patchew.yml b/.patchew.yml
> index 2638b7f564..1b78262ce5 100644
> --- a/.patchew.yml
> +++ b/.patchew.yml
> @@ -138,9 +138,6 @@ testing:
>         script: |
>           #!/bin/bash
>           git rev-parse base > /dev/null || exit 0
> -        git config --local diff.renamelimit 0
> -        git config --local diff.renames True
> -        git config --local diff.algorithm histogram
>           ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --mailback base..
>       docker-mingw@fedora:
>         enabled: true
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index bbcd25ae05..cb8eff233e 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -399,7 +399,12 @@ if ($chk_branch) {
>   	my $num_patches = @patches;
>   	for my $hash (@patches) {
>   		my $FILE;
> -		open($FILE, '-|', "git", "show", "--patch-with-stat", $hash) ||
> +		open($FILE, '-|', "git",
> +                     "-c", "diff.renamelimit=0",
> +                     "-c", "diff.renames=True",
> +                     "-c", "diff.algorithm=histogram",
> +                     "show",
> +                     "--patch-with-stat", $hash) ||
>   			die "$P: git show $hash - $!\n";
>   		while (<$FILE>) {
>   			chomp;