Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add ability to coalesce commit descriptions on multiple lines

From: Paul Bolle
Date: Tue Jan 20 2015 - 17:45:09 EST


Joe, Andrew,

On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 14:25 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> If a git commit description is split on consecutive lines,
> coalesce it before testing.
>
> This allows:
>
> commit <foo> ("some long
> description")
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Noticed-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>

Works as advertised (ie, that particular commit explanation doesn't
trigger an error anymore). And Andrew M. already added it to the -mm
tree.

Thanks, both of you!


Paul Bolle

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