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Commit b671fde0 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds
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checkpatch: add ability to coalesce commit descriptions on multiple lines 



If a git commit description is split on consecutive lines, coalesce it
before testing.

This allows:

  commit <foo> ("some long
  description")

Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: default avatarPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Tested-by: default avatarPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent acd9362c

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+7 −0
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -2198,6 +2198,13 @@ sub process { 
				 defined $rawlines[$linenr] &&

				 $rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*\("([^"]+)"\)/) {

				$orig_desc = $1;

			} elsif ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s+\("[^"]+$/i &&

				 defined $rawlines[$linenr] &&

				 $rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*[^"]+"\)/) {

				$line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s+\("([^"]+)$/i;

				$orig_desc = $1;

				$rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*([^"]+)"\)/;

				$orig_desc .= " " . $1;

			}



			($id, $description) = git_commit_info($orig_commit,