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. > -- Kind Regards, Niklas Söderlund