[PATCH v1] scripts: make checkpatch cleaner for renamed files
From: David Hunt <hidden>
Date: 2017-02-20 11:08:17
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
When a file is renamed, a normal diff will include all the code of the renamed file, and checkpatch will find warnings and errors, even though it's just a rename. This change will result in a 'rename' line in the diff, resulting in a much cleaner checkpatches result. Signed-off-by: David Hunt <redacted> --- devtools/checkpatches.sh | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
index cfe262b..6fbfb50 100755
--- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
+++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ check () { # <patch> <commit> <title> if [ -n "$1" ] ; then report=$($DPDK_CHECKPATCH_PATH $options "$1" 2>/dev/null) elif [ -n "$2" ] ; then - report=$(git format-patch --no-stat --stdout -1 $commit | + report=$(git format-patch --find-renames \ + --no-stat --stdout -1 $commit | $DPDK_CHECKPATCH_PATH $options - 2>/dev/null) else report=$($DPDK_CHECKPATCH_PATH $options - 2>/dev/null)
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