linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the rdma-fixes tree

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Date:   Mon, 21 Oct 2019 19:08:21 +0200
From:   Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@...lsio.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the rdma-fixes tree

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 7:01 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 05:39:06PM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> > > I thought I saw that checkpatch was checking this now?
> > >
> > > commit a8dd86bf746256fbf68f82bc13356244c5ad8efa
> > > Author: Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>
> > > Date:   Wed Sep 25 16:46:38 2019 -0700
> > >
> > >     checkpatch.pl: warn on invalid commit id
> > >
> > > Maybe that check should also check that enough hash is provided and
> > > other details like the correct subject line?
> > >
> > > I also use a check that builds the fixes line from the commit id and
> > > requires it to be the same as the patch provided. This catches all
> > > sorts of wrong fixes lines, and sometimes git even recommends 13 chars
> > > :\
> > >
> > > Jason
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > actually I just call git_commit_info() which checks for validness.
> > I could also check that the hash is at least 12 digits, would be very easy.
>
> IMHO you should do
>
>   git log --abbrev=12 -1 --format='Fixes: %h (\"%s\")'
>
> And check that the provided fixes line matches the above output
> exactly, or nearly exactly. People do lots of funny things to fixes
> lines..
>

The point in using git_commit_info() instead of calling git directly
is that the latter would generate an error if the working copy is not
a git tree (e.g. a tar.xz downloaded from kernel.org).

-- 
Matteo Croce
per aspera ad upstream