On Sat, 12 Sep 2020, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:

> 
> > Hmm, your email client still seems to be broken :( If you answer to my
> > email, it should use ">" not tabs. Maybe you can fix that.>
> > I looked at your scripts, I did not run them. They look as if they would
> > do the job you claim they do. They are more complicated than needed, but
> > it was not the task to find a simple solution. So, let us try them.
> >
> > Please have a look at this patch:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel-mentees/20200912094826.150170-1-ayush@disroot.org/
> >
> > The author states:
> >
> > This issue was discovered through a thorough analysis of checkpatch.pl
> > errors and warnings of type GIT_COMMIT_ID on commits between v5.7 and
> > v5.8.
> >
> > Before applying this patch, checkpatch.pl reported 342 errors of type
> > GIT_COMMIT_ID. After applying patch, errors reduced to 284.
> >
> >
> > If your scripts work, you should be able to confirm the statement.
> >
> > The tasks are:
> >
> > 1. Run your scripts and create a full statistics of all error types with
> > their according count for v5.7..v5.8.
> >
> > 2. Apply the patch with git am.
> >
> > 3. Run your scripts again and create a new statistics.
> >
> > 4. Compare before and after
> >
> > 5. Make all results available on your github repository.
> >
> 
> Hi,
> I think I got my email client working now.
> 

Looks better.

> The last time checkpatch.pl took awfully long to run on so many commits. :( 
> So, it might take a while but I will report my findings on this as soon 
> it is done processing.
>

I guess a bit computing power is required, SSDs, parallelization and 
multi-core systems help :)

Lukas