linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies

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Message-ID: <49A942F6.3020600@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:58:14 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...ena.org.uk>
CC:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies

Mark Brown wrote:
> Try to help ensure that e-mailed patches have some commit log text in
> the body of the e-mail by warning if we can't find any lines that look
> like a header of some kind prior to the Signed-off-by.

This gives false positives for patches like this:

From: [...]
Subject: this single line fully explains the whole patch

Signed-off-by: [...]
---
[...]

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