Re: [Ksummit-discuss] checkkpatch (in)sanity ?

From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] checkkpatch (in)sanity ?
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:41:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1472492468.3425.52.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160829171651.GA27257@cloud>

On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 10:16 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 05:47:59AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 
> > I generally don't run it on my own patches, mostly out
> > of possibly misplaced confidence in my own adherence to
> > the nominal kernel style.  It sometimes leads to mild
> > regret over things like whitespace defects.
> In the specific case of whitespace defects, does git diff not catch
> those?
> 
> For that matter, should we add a .gitattributes file to the kernel
> enabling additional whitespace errors git knows how to catch?  git.git
> has such a file.

For reference:
    https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configuration
and here's the git.git .gitattributes file:
    $ cat .gitattributes 
    * whitespace=!indent,trail,space
    *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp
    *.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space

Using something like that for kernel git would be a
good idea for trailing whitespace and space before HT.

But aren't those the generic git default options now?