Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: allow commit description spans across three lines

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2020-05-04 at 16:37 +0800, Wang YanQing wrote:
> The current GIT_COMMIT_ID will report error when the commit description
> spans across three lines, for examples:
> "...
> To rehash a previous explanation given in commit 1c44ce560b4d ("net:
> mscc: ocelot: fix vlan_filtering when enslaving to bridge before link is
> up"), the switch driver operates the in a mode where a single VLAN can
> be transmitted as untagged on a particular egress port. That is the
> "native VLAN on trunk port" use case.
> ..."
> 
> The above changelog comes from commit 87b0f983f66f ("net: mscc: ocelot:
> fix untagged packet drops when enslaving to vlan aware bridge").
> 
> "...
> With the optimizations for TLB invalidation from commit 0cef77c7798a
> ("powerpc/64s/radix: flush remote CPUs out of single-threaded
> mm_cpumask"), the scope of a TLBI (global vs. local) can now be
> ..."
> 
> The above changelog comes from commit cca19f0b684f ("powerpc/64s/radix: Fix
> missing global invalidations when removing copro").
> 
> The total length of commit description ("commit"+"12+ SHA1"+("title line"))
> exceeds 85 isn't uncommon thing, and it isn't uncommon thing that the ~85
> characters span across three lines, see above examples.
> 
> This patch adds support to recognize commit description which spans across
> three lines, then it will not emit error message for such situation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Hi! Joe
>  
>  I have tested with below command:
>  git log -10000 --format=%H -i --grep=" commit " | \
>  while read commit ; do \
>     echo $commit; \
>     ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --git $commit --types=GIT_COMMIT_ID --quiet --nosummary --color=never; \
>     done

trivial note here and actual notes below that:

I generally ignore the --merges commits.

It might be better to add --no-merges to the initial
command like:

$ git log <large_number> --no-merges ...

>  There are ~50 properly formed commit descriptions belong to this class, and I haven't check for
>  the non-standard commit descriptions, for examples:
>  3403e56b41c176f6531a2a6d77d85b46fa34169c
>  a78945c357f58665d6a5da8a69e085898e831c70
>  87b0f983f66f23762921129fd35966eddc3f2dae
>  ac8517440344dbe598f7c1c23e686c800b563061
>  cca19f0b684f4ed6aabf6ad07ae3e15e77bfd78a
>  53406ed1bcfdabe4b5bc35e6d17946c6f9f563e2
> 
>  This number isn't big, but they are all in properly formed format, so I think we should support them
>  and avoid emitting false positive error report.

Hi again.  Thanks for checking, seems reasonable.

This patch depends on the [V6] patch and I still have
some comments on that one to come so this can not be
applied at the moment.

cheers, Joe