On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 02:50 +0800, Wang YanQing wrote: > The current UNKNOWN_COMMIT_ID doesn't check for 41+ length commit id, > and although GIT_COMMIT_ID will check for 41+ length commit id, but > it willn't warn anything about it due to 41+ length commit will never > be defined. > > This patch moves the unknown commit id check for normal commit description > to GIT_COMMIT_ID, and uses ERROR instead of WARN, because unknown commit > id is total useless to track change history in changelog, it deserves the > ERROR. > > Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@xxxxxxxxx> Hi again. Trivial notes: > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl [] > @@ -2865,8 +2865,18 @@ sub process { > ($id, $description) = git_commit_info($orig_commit, > $id, $orig_desc); > > + if (!defined($id)) { > + if ($long) { > + ERROR("GIT_COMMIT_ID", > + "Unknown commit id '$orig_commit' is too long, maybe misspelled?\n" . $herecurr); checkpatch always uses tab indentation. Please convert from 4 spaces to 1 tab and reindent the rest. "misspelled" word choice may not be the best here as a SHA-1 isn't really something that is spelled. Perhaps something like: "Invalid commit id '$orig_commit' length '" . length($orig_commit) . "' exceeds allowed maximum of 40\n", Though maybe a recommended maximum of some constant should be used. my $recommended_sha_length = 12; > @@ -2969,7 +2979,7 @@ sub process { > } > > # check for invalid commit id > - if ($in_commit_log && $line =~ /(^fixes:|\bcommit)\s+([0-9a-f]{6,40})\b/i) { > + if ($in_commit_log && $line =~ /(^fixes:)\s+([0-9a-f]{6,40})\b/i) { Likely this capture group around Fixes: isn't necessary any more. > my $id; > my $description; > ($id, $description) = git_commit_info($2, undef, undef); $1 ?