Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: add support for checking patch from git repository

From	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: add support for checking patch from git repository
Date	2016-04-24 18:10 +0200
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On Sun, 2016-04-24 at 17:10 +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 04:22:45AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sun, 2016-04-24 at 18:40 +0800, changbin.du@intel.com wrote:
> > > From: "Du, Changbin" <changbin.du@intel.com>
> > > This patch add "-g, --git" option that tread FILE as git commits
> > > expression. You can specify the git commit hash ID expressions,
> > > then these commits from your git repository will be checked.
> > Why would anyone want to use checkpatch on commits already in git?
> It may be in some non-public development branch. Usually when I
> write patches I open a file, change it and commit the result or even
> interim result to have backups and other git features available as
> soon as possible. All testing is done later.
> 
> So IMHO this is a really useful feature.

I think it would be a more useful feature for
something like a git pull request rather than
a local git repository.

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[PATCH] checkpatch.pl: add support for checking patch from git repository changbin.du@intel.com - 2016-04-24 13:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: add support for checking patch from git  repository Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-04-24 13:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: add support for checking patch from git  repository Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-04-24 17:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: add support for checking patch from git  repository Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-04-24 18:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: add support for checking patch from git  repository Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-04-24 19:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: add support for checking patch from git  repository Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-04-24 19:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: add support for checking patch from git  repository Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-04-24 20:20 +0200

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