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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2015-02-13 14:38:41 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-13 21:21:39 -0800
commitb671fde0572af42495ce3183969b0cafa98fd9ec (patch)
treedf49b0fb6af3ca3413b36a28e1ce2ddebf2c3aa2 /scripts
parentacd9362c248e33187629c950badb834b73e20e41 (diff)
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checkpatch: add ability to coalesce commit descriptions on multiple lines
If a git commit description is split on consecutive lines, coalesce it before testing. This allows: commit <foo> ("some long description") Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 41223c946808..6a3baa0bdde8 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2198,6 +2198,13 @@ sub process {
defined $rawlines[$linenr] &&
$rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*\("([^"]+)"\)/) {
$orig_desc = $1;
+ } elsif ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s+\("[^"]+$/i &&
+ defined $rawlines[$linenr] &&
+ $rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*[^"]+"\)/) {
+ $line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s+\("([^"]+)$/i;
+ $orig_desc = $1;
+ $rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*([^"]+)"\)/;
+ $orig_desc .= " " . $1;
}
($id, $description) = git_commit_info($orig_commit,