Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Collingbourne <> | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:32:38 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: use correct gitroot when running from non-top-level dir |
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 4:33 PM Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com> wrote: > > My workflow usually requires running checkpatch.pl from a subdirectory > of the kernel source tree. This works for the most part, but the script > will be unable to find the .git directory and will therefore refuse to > run any git commands (so, e.g. commit ID verification will fail). Fix > it by prepending $root to $gitroot when a root is set. > > This also requires fixing one root directory assumption in a git > invocation.
Ping.
Peter
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