Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: do not test/warn of leading whitespace before signature tags | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:56:02 -0700 |
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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.
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