> “... Can the character “Horizontal ellipsis” (U+2026) be occasionally nicer instead of three separate dots? > The check supports below formats: 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 corresponding adjustments? > Because after GIT_COMMIT_ID supports 'Fixes:' tag format check, it could do > the same check as the UNKNOWN_COMMIT_ID, so we don't need UNKNOWN_COMMIT_ID > anymore and I decide to delete it. Would you like to propose related software adjustments? > 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"") Do you care to achieve a safer data format description also for this use case? > This is the v5 version, and I have tested it with below command: How do you think about to reuse the analysis approach outside the script “checkpatch.pl”? > v5: > 1: Rebased on '[PATCH v2] checkpatch: fix can't check for too long invalid commit id'. Are the software dependencies (and corresponding development challenges) growing? … > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > @@ -2818,51 +2818,101 @@ sub process { … > + $line =~ /\bfixes:\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\b/i || Would you like to reconsider the program organisation according to the application of regular expressions? … > + if (defined($id) && $has_parens_and_dqm && ($orig_desc ne $description)) { > + # Allow short description without too short! Will another wording adjustment become relevant here? > + if ($prefix eq "Fixes:") { > + if (length($orig_desc) >= length($description)/2) { Will the structure of the commit title matter any more? … > + $diagnostics .= "The title is too abbreviated, at least half of orignial commit title is necessary.\n"; Will the word “original” be more appropriate here? (Why did you not integrate my previous patch review comment?) … > + "Please use git commit description style '$prefix <$sha1_length_min+ chars of sha1> (\"<$title>\")' - ie: '${init_char}" . substr($prefix, 1) . > + " $id (\"$description\")'\n" . $diagnostics . $herecurr); Can error diagnostics become multi-line? Regards, Markus