Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Reduce git commit description style false positives

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri May 27 2016 - 17:52:54 EST


On Fri, 2016-05-27 at 14:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2016 14:20:42 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Some lines in a commit log appear to be commit SHA1 ids like:
> >
> > ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of
> > sha1> ("<title line>")' - ie: 'commit 0123456789ab ("commit
> > description")'
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/40e03fd7aaf1f55c75d787128d6d17c5a7122
> > 6c2.1464358556.git.vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Reduce the false positives.
> >
> hm, I still get the falsie when checking this very patch.

because commit 0123456789ab doesn't exist