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.h...@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)
--
2.7.4
