[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devtools: check commit log fixes syntax

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:27:58PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 30/01/2019 12:17, Ferruh Yigit:
> > On 1/30/2019 9:58 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> > > The contributing guide does indicate you are supposed to run both
> > > checkpatches.sh and check-git-log.sh.
> > > I am pretty sure I missed this second step in the past..
> > > 
> > > How about calling check-git-log.sh from checkpatches.sh ?
> > > check-git-log.sh does not support patch files as input, so it would need
> > > support for it.
> > 
> > That sounds good idea to have single script to run.
> 
> It will never be only one script to run.
> There are more scripts in devtools and I plan to add more.
> Some checks can be done only once for a group of commits,
> and will be really too slow if run for each patch when merging a branch.
> 
> About check-git-log, some tests cannot be possible outside of a git tree.
> Do you want to run it when checkpatches is run on git tree?
> Wouldn't it be confusing?
> 
Possibly, but we can print out a warning when not run, saying
"check-git-log skipped because we are not running on git tree". I think the
benefit of having all checks done by one script is greater than the
downside of a little confusion.

/Bruce