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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: perform commit ID check from external to
 git folder
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Date:   Thu, 11 Jun 2020 11:22:41 -0700
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On Thu, 2020-06-11 at 15:59 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
> 
> The execution of scripts/checkpatch.pl in folder outside of git produces
> complains about invalid commit ID, despite having valid one.

There is already a slightly different test for this in -next
It also uses a environment test for GIT_DIR.

Try that one.