Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Collingbourne <> | Date | Fri, 4 Nov 2022 09:51:14 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: use correct gitroot when running from non-top-level dir |
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 2:32 PM Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com> wrote: > > 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.
Ping^2.
Peter
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