[PATCH v5 22/22] checkpatch: reword long-line warn about commit-msg

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Tue Aug 1 23:55:12 UTC 2023


On Tue, 2023-08-01 at 17:35 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> Reword the warning to complain about line length 1st, since thats
> whats actually tested.
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> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
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> @@ -3272,7 +3272,7 @@ sub process {
>  					# A Fixes:, link or signature tag line
>  		      $commit_log_possible_stack_dump)) {
>  			WARN("COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE",
> -			     "Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)\n" . $herecurr);
> +			     "Prefer a maximum 75 chars per line (possible unwrapped commit description?)\n" . $herecurr);
>  			$commit_log_long_line = 1;
>  		}

I don't think this adds any clarity.  Anyone else? 



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