Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] checkpatch: improve handling of revert commits

[Denis Efremov]

On 8/21/21 10:12 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-08-21 at 09:47 +0300, Denis Efremov wrote:
>>
>> On 8/20/21 1:17 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>
>>> And I'm not sure if this particular ERROR is that useful overall.
>>
>> I find it useful to check commit-id and that it matches a title.
>> It's easy to make a typo in commit-id and get an invalid one.
> 
> That's true, but I meant requiring the sha1 hash to contain both
> the word "commit" and use ("title").
> 
> Looking at checkpatch's errors produced by this GIT_COMMIT_ID
> test makes the required form seem a bit too inflexible to me.
> 
> For instance: a sha1 hash may be repeated in a commit message where
> the first instance has the correct form but the second use is just
> the hash and the warning is still produced.
> 

I agree with you. There is also another example with list of commits:
 - commit <id-1> ("Title1")
 - commit <id-2> ("Title2")
...

I see no reason in writing "commit" on each line.