Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] checkpatch: consider git extended headers valid patches

[Eric Blake]

On 07/15/2016 03:46 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Renames look like this with git-diff(1) when diff.renames = true is set:
> 
>   diff --git a/a b/b
>   similarity index 100%
>   rename from a
>   rename to b
> 
> This raises the "Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch"
> error because checkpatch.pl only considers a diff valid if it contains
> at least one "@@" hunk.
> 
> This patch accepts renames and copies too so that checkpatch.pl exits
> successfully when a diff only renames/copies files.  The git diff
> extended header format is described on the git-diff(1) man page.
> 
> Reported-by: Colin Lord <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

and especially nice since we recommend diff.renames = true in our patch
submission guidelines.


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