On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 04:08:33AM +0000, David Hunt wrote: > 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) > --
This seems a good idea. Renaming legacy files which aren't checkpatch clean throws up lots of issues that we don't want to fix as part of the rename. Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>