Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: do not test/warn of leading whitespace before signature tags | From | Jeff Kirsher <> | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:21:25 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 01:56 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 01:43 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > > I understand what your saying, and I think that your suggestion about > > possibly implementing a "--input=git" option to checkpatch.pl might be a > > happy middle ground to resolve the numerous false warnings this check > > produces. > > As far as I can tell, --ignore= suffices. > > If you really want to use checkpatch for checking > already committed patches, maybe you should not > use git log but use git format-patch instead. > > $ git format-patch -1 --stdout | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl - > > That works without any problems.
Thank you Joe, I will take a look at how we validate patches with checkpatch.pl and hopefully we can reduce the time I take reviewing checkpatch.pl warnings.
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