[PATCH] checkpatch: Reduce git commit description style false positives

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri May 27 2016 - 17:21:00 EST


Some lines in a commit log appear to be commit SHA1 ids like:

ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> ("<title line>")' - ie: 'commit 0123456789ab ("commit description")'
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/40e03fd7aaf1f55c75d787128d6d17c5a71226c2.1464358556.git.vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Reduce the false positives.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 6750595..4904ced 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2454,6 +2454,7 @@ sub process {

# Check for git id commit length and improperly formed commit descriptions
if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_possible_stack_dump &&
+ $line !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|BugLink):/i &&
($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\b/i ||
($line =~ /\b[0-9a-f]{12,40}\b/i &&
$line !~ /[\<\[][0-9a-f]{12,40}[\>\]]/i &&
--
2.8.0.rc4.16.g56331f8