From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Remove obsolete period from "ambiguous SHA1" query
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 09:08:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190903160812.GD10768@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8afdbf13db47e7650473c7f71384f177f3dff59.camel@perches.com>
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 11:01:29AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 10:17 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 09:37:51AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 09:31 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > > Git dropped the period from its "ambiguous SHA1" error message in commit
> > > > 0c99171ad2 ("get_short_sha1: mark ambiguity error for translation"),
> > > > circa 2016. Drop the period from checkpatch's associated query so as to
> > > > match both the old and new error messages.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
> > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > > > index 93a7edfe0f05..ef3642c53100 100755
> > > > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > > > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > > > @@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ sub git_commit_info {
> > > >
> > > > return ($id, $desc) if ($#lines < 0);
> > > >
> > > > - if ($lines[0] =~ /^error: short SHA1 $commit is ambiguous\./) {
> > > > + if ($lines[0] =~ /^error: short SHA1 $commit is ambiguous/) {
> > > > # Maybe one day convert this block of bash into something that returns
> > > > # all matching commit ids, but it's very slow...
> > > > #
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Did git ever change to actually support human readable
> > > messages in multiple languages?
> >
> > Yep, e.g.:
> >
> > error: Kurzer SHA-1 745f ist mehrdeutig.
> >
> > > If so, this won't work for non-english output.
> >
> > Yep again. The next check for 'fatal: ambiguous argument' obviously fails
> > as well and checkpatch ends up using git's error message as the id and
> > description.
> >
> > ERROR: Please use git ... - ie: 'commit error: Kurze ("")'
>
> Does git exit with unique failure codes?
Nope, AFAICT usage errors get exit(129) and everything else gets exit(128).
> If so, maybe the waitid/siginfo_t error could be used instead.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-03 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-30 16:31 [PATCH] checkpatch: Remove obsolete period from "ambiguous SHA1" query Sean Christopherson
2019-08-30 16:37 ` Joe Perches
2019-08-30 17:17 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-08-30 18:01 ` Joe Perches
2019-08-30 18:29 ` Joe Perches
2019-09-01 19:29 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Make git output use LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 Joe Perches
2019-09-03 15:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-03 16:08 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
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