Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: add support for checking patch from git repository

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2016-04-24 at 17:10 +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 04:22:45AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sun, 2016-04-24 at 18:40 +0800, changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: "Du, Changbin" <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > This patch add "-g, --git" option that tread FILE as git commits
> > > expression. You can specify the git commit hash ID expressions,
> > > then these commits from your git repository will be checked.
> > Why would anyone want to use checkpatch on commits already in git?
> It may be in some non-public development branch. Usually when I
> write patches I open a file, change it and commit the result or even
> interim result to have backups and other git features available as
> soon as possible. All testing is done later.
> 
> So IMHO this is a really useful feature.

I think it would be a more useful feature for
something like a git pull request rather than
a local git repository.