Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Allow not using -f with files that are in git

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Joe,

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 2:12 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If a file exists in git and checkpatch is used without the -f
> flag for scanning a file, then checkpatch will scan the file
> assuming it's a patch and emit:
>
> ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch
>
> Change the behavior to assume the -f flag if the file exists
> in git.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -976,6 +976,16 @@ sub seed_camelcase_includes {
>         }
>  }
>
> +sub git_is_single_file {
> +       my ($filename) = @_;
> +
> +       return 0 if ((which("git") eq "") || !(-e "$gitroot"));
> +
> +       my $output = `${git_command} ls-files -- $filename`;
> +       my $count = $output =~ tr/\n//;
> +       return $count eq 1 && $output =~ m{^${filename}$};
> +}
> +
>  sub git_commit_info {
>         my ($commit, $id, $desc) = @_;
>

This is now commit f5f613259f3fea81 ("checkpatch: allow not using -f
with files that are in git"), causing:

    Global symbol "$gitroot" requires explicit package name (did you
forget to declare "my $gitroot"?) at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 980.
    Execution of scripts/checkpatch.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

FWIW, host system is running Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (upgrade to 20.04 LTS
planned soon ;-).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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