Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix an issue regarding the git commit description style test

[Joe Perches]

On Sat, 2021-08-14 at 10:43 +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:26 AM Hamza Mahfooz
> <someguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > If we consider the output of the following command:
> > 
> > $ git shortlog | grep '"' | wc -l
> > 14185
> > 
> > It becomes apparent that quite a number of commits have titles that,
> > contain at least one quotation mark and if you attempt to refer to those
> > commits in a new patch, checkpatch throws a false positive. This is
> > because, checkpatch disallows the use of quotation marks in commit titles,
> > only when referring to those commits in commit descriptions.
> > 
> 
> Joe will certainly have the final say on this.

I did suggest a patch.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/7f55d9d0369f1ea840fab83eeb77f9f3601fee41.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx/