> The check supports below formats:
I suggest to omit the concrete examples.
I would prefer the explicit wording for the support of (Unicode) ellipses
also in the shown commit titles.
Will the document “submitting-patches.rst” need a corresponding adjustment?
> The check doesn't support below formats:
How do you think about to extend error diagnostics for patch checking?
> Fixes: f2c2e717642c ("usb: gadget: add raw-gadget interface"
Missing closing parenthesis
> Fixes: 6c73698904aa pinctrl: qcom: Introduce readl/writel accessors
Missing enclosing delimiters
> Fixes: 3fd6e7d9a146 (ASoC: tas571x: New driver for TI TAS571x power amplifiers)
> Fixes: 55697cbb44e4 ("arm64: dts: renesas: r8a779{65,80,90}: Add IPMMU devices nodes)
Missing quotation characters
> Fixes: ba35f8588f47 (“ipvlan: Defer multicast / broadcast processing to a work-queue”)
…
> Fixes: 03f6fc6de919 ('ASoC: rt5682: Add the soundwire support')
Would we like to tolerate such quotation character alternatives?
> Fixes: 9b1640686470 ("scsi: lpfc: Fix use-after-free mailbox cmd completion")
How do you think about to tolerate extra white-space characters around
the commit identifier?
> Note: this patch also fixes double quotation mark issue for normal git
> commit description, and now it supports double quotation mark in
> title line, for example:
> Commit e33e2241e272 ("Revert "cfg80211: Use 5MHz bandwidth by default
> when checking usable channels"")
I find that such an example should trigger further software development considerations
for a safe data format description.
> v2:
> 1: Add support for double quotation mark in title line, suggested by Markus Elfring.
I guess that the clarification is still evolving also around this aspect.
Regards,
Markus
