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SubjectRe: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add optional --codespell dictionary to find more typos
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> If a codespell dictionary exists, use it if desired.
> default is off, maybe it could be turned on later.
>
> codespell's dictionary format allows multiple possible corrections,
> ignore that for now and only use the first suggestion.

Most of them were particularly added to avoid wrong suggestions in
kernel code base (admittedly a long time ago)...
Wouldn't it be better to output the entire list of suggestions as
codespell the tool does?


>
> Also add \b to spelling test so that consecutive misspelled words
> are found properly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index c061a63..6b79beb 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ my $ignore_perl_version = 0;
> my $minimum_perl_version = 5.10.0;
> my $min_conf_desc_length = 4;
> my $spelling_file = "$D/spelling.txt";
> +my $codespell = 0;
> +my $codespellfile = "/usr/local/share/codespell/dictionary.txt";
>
> sub help {
> my ($exitcode) = @_;
> @@ -88,6 +90,9 @@ Options:
> file. It's your fault if there's no backup or git
> --ignore-perl-version override checking of perl version. expect
> runtime errors.
> + --codespell Use the codespell dictionary for spelling/typos
> + (default:/usr/local/share/codespell/dictionary.txt)
> + --codespellfile Use this codespell dictionary

I'm not a perl guru, but couldn't we have a single option like
--codespell / --codespell=FILE ?

Other than that,

Acked-By: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>

--
Lucas De Marchi


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