linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add new exception to repeated word check

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Date:   Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:03:38 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lukas.bulwahn@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add new exception to repeated word check

On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 22:07 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> Recently, commit 4f6ad8aa1eac ("checkpatch: move repeated word test")
> moved the repeated word test to check for more file types. But after
> this, if checkpatch.pl is run on MAINTAINERS, it generates several
> new warnings of the type:

Perhaps instead of adding more content checks so that
word boundaries are not something like \S but also
not punctuation so that content like

	git git://
	@size size

does not match?