[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] scripts: make checkpatch cleaner for renamed files

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 04:08:33AM +0000, David Hunt wrote:
> When a file is renamed, a normal diff will include all the code of
> the renamed file, and checkpatch will find warnings and errors,
> even though it's just a rename.
> 
> This change will result in a 'rename' line in the diff, resulting
> in a much cleaner checkpatches result.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com>
> ---
>  devtools/checkpatches.sh | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> index cfe262b..6fbfb50 100755
> --- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> +++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> @@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ check () { # <patch> <commit> <title>
>  	if [ -n "$1" ] ; then
>  		report=$($DPDK_CHECKPATCH_PATH $options "$1" 2>/dev/null)
>  	elif [ -n "$2" ] ; then
> -		report=$(git format-patch --no-stat --stdout -1 $commit |
> +		report=$(git format-patch --find-renames \
> +			--no-stat --stdout -1 $commit |
>  			$DPDK_CHECKPATCH_PATH $options - 2>/dev/null)
>  	else
>  		report=$($DPDK_CHECKPATCH_PATH $options - 2>/dev/null)
> -- 

This seems a good idea. Renaming legacy files which aren't checkpatch
clean throws up lots of issues that we don't want to fix as part of the
rename.

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>