From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56DE4C32771 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:03:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235531AbiIZPDG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:03:06 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:33112 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235528AbiIZPCU (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:02:20 -0400 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0010.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.10]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51995637A for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 06:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omf15.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750B5A0C21; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf15.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 68F851B; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:34:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <8cdad668f987bfc20d06628bd897accc6c7d3abb.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: checkpatch stops processing at an empty commit From: Joe Perches To: Tomi Valkeinen , Andy Whitcroft Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 06:34:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT User-Agent: Evolution 3.44.4 (3.44.4-2.fc36) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout07 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 68F851B X-Stat-Signature: irhghqc11ryknrj8r6ibwzuqnp8ukbuc X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX19kVxaYY/9IGxmVYVrZOuQuhOQ7eDSEGqs= X-HE-Tag: 1664199268-283903 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 13:41 +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > Hi, Hi back. > I use empty commits as "banner" commits, and it seems that checkpatch stops > processing commits when it encounters such an empty commit. Well, honestly I don't much care. This is not a use of checkpatch nor git in typical development. If it bothers you, you could fix it. Or perhaps pay someone to fix it for you. cheers, Joe