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| author | Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> | 2020-12-15 20:45:18 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-12-15 22:46:17 -0800 |
| commit | 084a617acfa08118eafb51a6ef43e6fa4705853d (patch) | |
| tree | 2ec80eeaf4630bf9fb95767982b1b694f9905286 /scripts | |
| parent | 70eb2275ff8e0b4cafe67176674d580c987c071d (diff) | |
| download | lwn-084a617acfa08118eafb51a6ef43e6fa4705853d.tar.gz lwn-084a617acfa08118eafb51a6ef43e6fa4705853d.zip | |
checkpatch: add warning for lines starting with a '#' in commit log
Commit log lines starting with '#' are dropped by git as comments.
Add a check to emit a warning for these lines.
Also add a --fix option to insert a space before the leading '#' in
such lines.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201202205740.127986-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 2716b9bfc0c2..b7dde7260921 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3033,6 +3033,15 @@ sub process { $commit_log_possible_stack_dump = 0; } +# Check for lines starting with a # + if ($in_commit_log && $line =~ /^#/) { + if (WARN("COMMIT_COMMENT_SYMBOL", + "Commit log lines starting with '#' are dropped by git as comments\n" . $herecurr) && + $fix) { + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^/ /; + } + } + # Check for git id commit length and improperly formed commit descriptions if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_possible_stack_dump && $line !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|https|BugLink|base-commit):/i && |