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SubjectRe: outside repository fatal error


On Sun, 20 Sep 2020, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Sun, 2020-09-20 at 13:53 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > The commit bcf4271d4bc3 ("checkpatch: allow not using -f with files that
> > are in git") in linux-next seems to cause checkpatch to fail on a file
> > containing a patch if that file is not in the directory containing the
> > Linux kernel.
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> > Is that intentional?
>
> No. It doesn't really fail, it just emits a fatal
> warning from git.
>
> I believe this makes it better by silencing the error.

It seems fine now.

Reviewed-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>

julia

> ---
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 3e474072aa90..469f8e7456df 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ sub git_is_single_file {
>
> return 0 if ((which("git") eq "") || !(-e "$gitroot"));
>
> - my $output = `${git_command} ls-files -- $filename`;
> + my $output = `${git_command} ls-files -- $filename 2>/dev/null`;
> my $count = $output =~ tr/\n//;
> return $count eq 1 && $output =~ m{^${filename}$};
> }
>
>
>
>

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