[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devtools: check commit log fixes syntax

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Jan 30 13:23:11 CET 2019


30/01/2019 12:31, Bruce Richardson:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:27:58PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 30/01/2019 12:17, Ferruh Yigit:
> > > On 1/30/2019 9:58 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> > > > The contributing guide does indicate you are supposed to run both
> > > > checkpatches.sh and check-git-log.sh.
> > > > I am pretty sure I missed this second step in the past..
> > > > 
> > > > How about calling check-git-log.sh from checkpatches.sh ?
> > > > check-git-log.sh does not support patch files as input, so it would need
> > > > support for it.
> > > 
> > > That sounds good idea to have single script to run.
> > 
> > It will never be only one script to run.
> > There are more scripts in devtools and I plan to add more.
> > Some checks can be done only once for a group of commits,
> > and will be really too slow if run for each patch when merging a branch.
> > 
> > About check-git-log, some tests cannot be possible outside of a git tree.
> > Do you want to run it when checkpatches is run on git tree?
> > Wouldn't it be confusing?
> > 
> Possibly, but we can print out a warning when not run, saying
> "check-git-log skipped because we are not running on git tree". I think the
> benefit of having all checks done by one script is greater than the
> downside of a little confusion.

OK




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