Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: use correct gitroot when running from non-top-level dir

[Peter Collingbourne]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 4:33 PM Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My workflow usually requires running checkpatch.pl from a subdirectory
> of the kernel source tree. This works for the most part, but the script
> will be unable to find the .git directory and will therefore refuse to
> run any git commands (so, e.g. commit ID verification will fail). Fix
> it by prepending $root to $gitroot when a root is set.
>
> This also requires fixing one root directory assumption in a git
> invocation.

Ping.

Peter