Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Remove obsolete period from "ambiguous SHA1" query

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 09:31 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Git dropped the period from its "ambiguous SHA1" error message in commit
> 0c99171ad2 ("get_short_sha1: mark ambiguity error for translation"),
> circa 2016.  Drop the period from checkpatch's associated query so as to
> match both the old and new error messages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 93a7edfe0f05..ef3642c53100 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ sub git_commit_info {
>  
>  	return ($id, $desc) if ($#lines < 0);
>  
> -	if ($lines[0] =~ /^error: short SHA1 $commit is ambiguous\./) {
> +	if ($lines[0] =~ /^error: short SHA1 $commit is ambiguous/) {
>  # Maybe one day convert this block of bash into something that returns
>  # all matching commit ids, but it's very slow...
>  #

Thanks.

Did git ever change to actually support human readable
messages in multiple languages?

If so, this won't work for non-english output.

It probably doesn't matter though.

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>