linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkpatch: Don't check for unified diff format in git sendemail headers

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:01:53 -0800
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, Dwaipayan Ray
 <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,  Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
 kernel-team@...roid.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkpatch: Don't check for unified diff format in
 git sendemail headers

On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 16:45 -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 12:54 AM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2024-02-21 at 21:15 -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > > When checkpatch is used as a git sendemail-validate hook, it's also passed
> > > in the email header for sanity check.
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > If so, why not use a front-end script to stop/remove
> > the file from being scanned by checkpatch?
> 
> Sure, I could do that. But this also makes it easier for people to
> start using checkpatch. Or I can put up a git hook wrapper script in
> here for people to symlink into their .git/hooks that does this.
> 
> I'd prefer the lazy route of not creating a 1 line wrapper script :)

I'd not.  checkpatch is for _patches_.
Don't feed stuff to it that isn't patches and expect good results.