linux-kernel - Re: broken checkpatch signature checking

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:41:42 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: broken checkpatch signature checking

On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 00:33 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> The signature checking patches in commit 2011247550 have broken one use-case for me.
> I pipe the git-commits mailing list to it and skim the summary once a day[*]
> Because git indents its changelogs, every single commit is now warning
> with this..
> WARNING: Do not use whitespace before Signed-off-by:
> #5252:
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> 	Dave
> [*] It's too noisy to do anything useful with right now, which is
>     why I'd like to filter out all the whitespace crap, but hopefully
>     that'll happen eventually.

Hey Dave.

Maybe you could use --ignore=BAD_SIGN_OFF for this reviewing?

I think that the general use case is OK.

I'm not sure that it's appropriate to use
checkpatch on git log output.

cheers, Joe

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