Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: do not test/warn of leading whitespace beforesignature tags

[Michal Marek]

On 18.8.2011 09:59, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>> From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Unfortunately, now whenever patches are checked
>>>> by piping the output of 'git show' or 'stg show' through checkpatch it
>>>> warns not to use whitespace before all signature tags since these (and the
>>>> rest of the patch description) are indented.  Remove this test/warning.
...
> 
> I suppose checkpatch could have a different "--input=git"
> or some such to avoid certain things that git might produce
> that a patch would not.

One can also use 'git show --pretty=email', which does not do the
indentation.

Michal
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