Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] checkpatch: add new exception to repeated word check

[Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:00 PM Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Recently, commit 4f6ad8aa1eac ("checkpatch: move repeated word test")
> moved the repeated word test to check for more file types. But after
> this, if checkpatch.pl is run on MAINTAINERS, it generates several
> new warnings of the type:
>
> WARNING: Possible repeated word: 'git'
>
> For example:
> WARNING: Possible repeated word: 'git'
> +T:     git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml.git
>
> So, the pattern "git git://..." is a false positive in this case.
>
> Add 'git' to the exception list for repeated word check. This effectively
> fixes all the newly generated false positives.
>
> Fixes: 4f6ad8aa1eac ("checkpatch: move repeated word test")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel-mentees/b6cd81b936671a8868fe98536d7c80771bdfd61c.camel@perches.com/
>
> Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index f1a4e61917eb..b55d83360366 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3063,7 +3063,7 @@ sub process {
>                                 }
>
>                                 next if ($first ne $second);
> -                               next if ($first eq 'long');
> +                               next if ($first =~ /(?:long|git)$/);
>
>                                 if (WARN("REPEATED_WORD",
>                                          "Possible repeated word: '$first'\n" . $herecurr) &&
> --
> 2.27.0
>

Hi,
Should I send this out or has this reached a dead end here?

Thanks,
Dwaipayan.
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