Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: relax regexp for COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 11:31 +0100, Jerome Forissier wrote:
> On 9/23/21 16:38, Jerome Forissier wrote:
> > One exceptions to the COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE rule is a file path followed
> > by :. That is typically some sort diagnostic message from a compiler or
> > a build tool, in which case we don't want to wrap the lines but keep the
> > message unmodified.
> > The regular expression used to match this pattern currently doesn't
> > accept absolute paths or + characters. This can result in false
> > positives as in the following (out-of-tree) example:
[]
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> > @@ -3147,7 +3147,7 @@ sub process {
> >  		    length($line) > 75 &&
> >  		    !($line =~ /^\s*[a-zA-Z0-9_\/\.]+\s+\|\s+\d+/ ||
> >  					# file delta changes
> > -		      $line =~ /^\s*(?:[\w\.\-]+\/)++[\w\.\-]+:/ ||
> > +		      $line =~ /^\s*(?:[\w\.\-\+]*\/)++[\w\.\-\+]+:/ ||
> >  					# filename then :

I looked the number of new matches

$ git log --format=email -100000 | \
  grep -P '^\s*(?:[\w\.\-]+\/)++[\w\.\-]+:' | wc -l
21160
$ git log --format=email -100000 | \
  grep -P '^\s*(?:[\w\.\-\+]*\/)++[\w\.\-]+:' | wc -l
21627

OK, so around 3% more matches.

And then looked only at these new matches

$ git log --format=email -100000 | \
  grep -P '^\s*(?:[\w\.\-\+]*\/)++[\w\.\-]+:' | \
  grep -P -v '^\s*(?:[\w\.\-]+\/)++[\w\.\-]+:'

And all these new matches look OK to me to ignore for long lines.
Out of tree or not...

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>