[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] scripts: check commits with checkpatch

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 03:15:54PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-06-02 13:33, Bruce Richardson:
> > Testing this out here, I find that git format-patch includes the diff stats
> > in the output, which then can trigger long-line warnings for the commit message.
> > 
> > 	WARNING:COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE: Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)
> > 	#8:
> > 	 examples/my-new-test-app/basicfwd.c | 342 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 
> > To fix this, I suggest replacing "format-patch --stdout" with "show --format=email"
> > since that should give the same output just without the change stats.
> 
> or format-patch --no-stat
>
Sure, whatever works! :-) It's just a longer command :-)

/Bruce