linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] scripts/most_common_subject_prefix.pl: Find the most common commit subject prefix

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Date:   Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:18:14 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
cc:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] scripts/most_common_subject_prefix.pl: Find the most
 common commit subject prefix



On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 09:45 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Sep 2020, Joe Perches wrote:
> > < This will emit a single line that is the most commonly used commit
> > > subject prefix up to and including the last colon of the commit subject
> > > for commits that _only_ include the specific file and not any other file.
> >
> > For the comma->semicolon patches, I noticed the need for a number of
> > suject lines of the form:
> >
> > hwrng: xxx - patch description
> >
> > So maybe other delimiters have to be taken into account.
>
> Maybe. Can you provide a few more examples?

Looking through git log --oneline, nothing else is jumping out.  Another
issue is colons in the message text.  I think that I check that the only
spaces have the form ": " to avoid this problem, but I do see:

88db0aa24216 all arch: remove system call sys_sysctl
92e4edba6e2 perf ftrace: Make option description initials all capital letters
(most of the perf patches seem to be like this one)

Here is another with -

27aced19e098 Input: exc3000 - add reset gpio support

Reverts seem to typically have Revert followed by the original subject
line in quotes.

julia