Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style

[Niklas Söderlund]

Hello Joe,

On 2022-09-05 11:00:35 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 12:49 +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
> > 
> > Thanks for your feedback.
> > 
> > On 2022-08-29 23:06:43 -0400, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > +			if ($line =~ 
> > > > /(fixes:)\s+([0-9a-f]{5,})\s+($balanced_parens)/i) {
> > > 
> > > Maybe use fixes:? so the colon is not required in poorly formed uses
> > 
> > I tried that but I think it brings more problems then it is worth. With 
> > that change the check would run for each line of the commit message that 
> > begins with the string 'fixes', not just in the tags section of the 
> > message. So it would warn for the commit message,
> 
> I think it's not a problem.
> Look at the results of:
> 
> $ git log -100000 --no-merges --format=email --grep="^fixes" -i | \
>   grep -i -P -oh '^fixes:?\s*[0-9a-f]{5,}\s*..' | \
>   sed -r -e 's/^(fixes:?\s*)[0-9a-f]+/\1/i' | \
>   sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20
>   73974 Fixes:  ("
>    1345 Fixes:  ('
>     399 Fixes: 
>     246 Fixes:  (A
>     215 Fixes: ("
>     172 Fixes:  (c
>     121 Fixes:  (s
>     114 Fixes:  (d
>     110 Fixes:  (P
>      98 Fixes:  (i
>      90 Fixes:  (m
>      86 Fixes:  (n
>      78 Fixes: : 
>      57 Fixes  ("
>      51 Fixes:  "n
>      47 Fixes:  (a
>      46 Fixes:  (t
>      43 fixes:  ("
>      42 Fixes:  (p
>      41 Fixes: ('

Thanks for checking this. With this background I agree with you, there 
is no problem here. I will spin a v3 with your suggestion.
> 

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Kind Regards,
Niklas Söderlund