in_commit_log: is the wrong token being matched for the MAINTAINERS need updating message?

From: Claudio Fontana
Date: Mon Aug 10 2020 - 12:45:56 EST


Hi,

while working on a downstream version of the checkpatch.pl script used for qemu,

I experienced a "bug" that I traced back to the kernel upstream version of checkpatch.pl, and hence the question:

what is the exact meaning of the variable in_commit_log, is it supposed to be including the git diff stats or not?

For example, lets take this sample useless patch as input:

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