linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Reduce git commit description style false positives

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Message-ID: <1464385966.20401.0.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 May 2016 14:52:46 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Reduce git commit description style false
 positives

On Fri, 2016-05-27 at 14:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2016 14:20:42 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Some lines in a commit log appear to be commit SHA1 ids like:
> > 
> > ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of
> > sha1> ("<title line>")' - ie: 'commit 0123456789ab ("commit
> > description")'
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/40e03fd7aaf1f55c75d787128d6d17c5a7122
> > 6c2.1464358556.git.vdavydov@...tuozzo.com
> > 
> > Reduce the false positives.
> > 
> hm, I still get the falsie when checking this very patch.

because commit 0123456789ab doesn't exist