The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: remove obsolete period from "ambiguous SHA1" query has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-remove-obsolete-period-from-ambiguous-sha1-query.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-remove-obsolete-period-from-ambiguous-sha1-query.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-remove-obsolete-period-from-ambiguous-sha1-query.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: remove obsolete period from "ambiguous SHA1" query Git dropped the period from its "ambiguous SHA1" error message in commit 0c99171ad2 ("get_short_sha1: mark ambiguity error for translation"), circa 2016. Drop the period from checkpatch's associated query so as to match both the old and new error messages. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190830163103.15914-1-sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-remove-obsolete-period-from-ambiguous-sha1-query +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ sub git_commit_info { return ($id, $desc) if ($#lines < 0); - if ($lines[0] =~ /^error: short SHA1 $commit is ambiguous\./) { + if ($lines[0] =~ /^error: short SHA1 $commit is ambiguous/) { # Maybe one day convert this block of bash into something that returns # all matching commit ids, but it's very slow... # _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-remove-obsolete-period-from-ambiguous-sha1-query.patch