Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: add support for checking patch from git repository | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Sun, 24 Apr 2016 09:07:21 -0700 |
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On Sun, 2016-04-24 at 17:10 +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 04:22:45AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Sun, 2016-04-24 at 18:40 +0800, changbin.du@intel.com wrote: > > > From: "Du, Changbin" <changbin.du@intel.com> > > > This patch add "-g, --git" option that tread FILE as git commits > > > expression. You can specify the git commit hash ID expressions, > > > then these commits from your git repository will be checked. > > Why would anyone want to use checkpatch on commits already in git? > It may be in some non-public development branch. Usually when I > write patches I open a file, change it and commit the result or even > interim result to have backups and other git features available as > soon as possible. All testing is done later. > > So IMHO this is a really useful feature.
I think it would be a more useful feature for something like a git pull request rather than a local git repository.
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