On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-10-27 at 02:16 +0300, Kari Argillander wrote:
> > Time has pass and we do not need these anymore as almost all people are
> > using git now days. Those who use cvs for kernel development probably
> > will handle cvs pretty well already so this check is not needed anymore.
>
> I think it's a relatively harmless thing to keep.
>
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
> > @@ -4017,12 +4017,6 @@ sub process {
> > }
> > }
> >
> > -# check for RCS/CVS revision markers
> > - if ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\$(Revision|Log|Id)(?:\$|)/) {
>
> Looks like this would be better using
>
> if ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\b\$(?:Revision|Log|Id)\$?\b/) {
As I say before I do not know much about cvs or perl regex, but I do not
get any match with your suggestion. Test strings which I have tested:
/* $Log: frob.c,v $ */
/* $Log: frob.c,v$ */
/* $Log$ */
But these can be wrong as I do not fully understand how cvs keywords
works.
>
> > - WARN("CVS_KEYWORD",
> > - "CVS style keyword markers, these will _not_ be updated\n". $herecurr);
>
>
