+ checkpatch-add-warning-for-lines-starting-with-a-in-commit-log.patch added to -mm tree

+ checkpatch-add-warning-for-lines-starting-with-a-in-commit-log.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: checkpatch: add warning for lines starting with a '#' in commit log
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     checkpatch-add-warning-for-lines-starting-with-a-in-commit-log.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-add-warning-for-lines-starting-with-a-in-commit-log.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-add-warning-for-lines-starting-with-a-in-commit-log.patch

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From: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Subject: checkpatch: add warning for lines starting with a '#' in commit log

Commit log lines starting with '#' are dropped by git as comments.
Add a check to emit a warning for these lines.

Also add a --fix option to insert a space before the leading '#' in
such lines.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201202205740.127986-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-warning-for-lines-starting-with-a-in-commit-log
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3033,6 +3033,15 @@ sub process {
 			$commit_log_possible_stack_dump = 0;
 		}
 
+# Check for lines starting with a #
+		if ($in_commit_log && $line =~ /^#/) {
+			if (WARN("COMMIT_COMMENT_SYMBOL",
+				 "Commit log lines starting with '#' are dropped by git as comments\n" . $herecurr) &&
+			    $fix) {
+				$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^/ /;
+			}
+		}
+
 # Check for git id commit length and improperly formed commit descriptions
 		if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_possible_stack_dump &&
 		    $line !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|https|BugLink|base-commit):/i &&
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from dwaipayanray1@gmail.com are

checkpatch-add-new-exception-to-repeated-word-check.patch
checkpatch-extend-attributes-check-to-handle-more-patterns.patch
checkpatch-improve-email-parsing.patch
checkpatch-fix-spelling-errors-and-remove-repeated-word.patch
checkpatch-fix-unescaped-left-brace.patch
checkpatch-add-warning-for-unnecessary-use-of-%h-and-%hh.patch
checkpatch-add-warning-for-lines-starting-with-a-in-commit-log.patch