[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH RFC] checkpatch: add new cases to commit handling

[Lukas Bulwahn]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 2:37 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 1:31 PM Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Commit extraction in checkpatch fails in some cases.
> > One of the most common false positives is a split line
> > between "commit" and the git SHA of the commit.
> >
> > Improve commit handling to reduce false positives.
> >
> > Improvements:
> > - handle split line between commit and git SHA of commit.
> > - fix handling of split commit description.
> >
> > A quick evaluation of 50k commits from v5.4 showed that
> > the GIT_COMMIT_ID errors dropped from 1032 to 897. Most
> > of these were split lines between commit and its hash.
> >
>
> Can you send me the file of the evaluation, e.g., all contexts (two
> lines above and two lines below) around the warned line in the commits
> where the GIT_COMMIT_ID dropped?
>
> Then, I can do a quick sanity check as well.
>

Thanks, Dwaipayan; I checked your file sent off-list and it looks good
to not report on those cases.

Maybe we can now check the remaining 900 cases once again; are they
all true positives or is there still a big false positive class?

Lukas