linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] leds: netdev trigger: use memcpy in device_name

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Date:   Wed, 27 Mar 2019 22:45:33 +0100
From:   Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@...il.com>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] leds: netdev trigger: use memcpy in
 device_name_store

On 3/27/19 10:31 PM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 27/03/2019 22.20, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the heads-up. I must admit I'm hitting into that for the
>> first time. After "git am" it was all OK, but it got screwed up after
>> "git rebase -i". And having "commit.cleanup = scissors" set globally all
>> the time is annoying if one extensively uses interactive rebase for
>> rewording commit messages. It entails the need for manual removal of
>> the whole stuff that appears then after actual commit message prepended
>> with "#" comment characters.
> 
> Eh, no? At least, whenever I do commit or rebase -i, git automatically
> inserts a trailer starting with the magic scissor line
> 
> # ------------------------ >8 ------------------------
> # Do not modify or remove the line above.
> # Everything below it will be ignored.
> 
> Maybe there's some other config option to get that, or it depends on git
> version. But I certainly don't do anything at all other than write or
> modify the commit message.

I don't have this "#-- >8 --" line. Will have to find out the reason.
I'm using git version 2.11.0 btw.

> Never had a problem myself since I set commit.cleanup = scissors, but I
> have had lots of my commit messages mangled, which is why I'm reacting.
> 
>> This is probably the reason why people use often other characters
>> for command prompt (see the other fix for ledtrig-netdev).
> 
> Command prompt char is not the only problem; C snippets with #include or
> other preprocessor directives also regularly gets mangled, as does shell
> snippets with a bit of commentary.

True. I certainly will have to get my git config fixed.

-- 
Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski