Re: [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: support "base-commit:" format

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 17:06 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 15:32 -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> > In order to support the get-lore-mbox.py tool described in [1], I ran:
> > 
> >     git format-patch --base=<commit> --cover-letter <revrange>
> > 
> > ...which generated a "base-commit: <commit-hash>" tag at the end of the
> > cover letter. However, checkpatch.pl generated an error upon encounting
> > "base-commit:" in the cover letter:
> > 
> >     "ERROR: Please use git commit description style..."
> > 
> > ...because it found the "commit" keyword, and failed to recognize that
> > it was part of the "base-commit" phrase, and as such, should not be
> > subjected to the same commit description style rules.
> > 
> > Update checkpatch.pl to include a special case for "base-commit:", so
> > that that tag no longer generates a checkpatch error.
[]
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> > @@ -2761,6 +2761,7 @@ sub process {
> >  
> >  # Check for git id commit length and improperly formed commit descriptions
> >  		if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_possible_stack_dump &&
> > +		    $line !~ /base-commit:/ &&
> 
> If this base-commit: entry is only at the start of line,
> I presume this should actually be
> 
> 		    $line !~ /^base-commit:/ &&
> or maybe
> 		    $line !~ /^\s*base-commit:/ &&
> 
> >  		    $line !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|https|BugLink):/i &&

and probably better to just add it to this line instead like

 		    $line !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|https|BugLink|base-commit):/i &&