On Fri, 2018-07-13 at 14:40 -0700, Prakruthi Deepak Heragu wrote:
> Commit text is almost always necessary to explain why a change is needed.
This bit seems sensible, but perhaps it should just count the
number of lines after the end of email headers and before any
Signed-off-by:/Signature line
> Also, warn on commit text lines longer than 75 characters. The commit text
> are indented and may wrap on a terminal if they are longer than 75
> characters.
This is already exists via
# Check for line lengths > 75 in commit log, warn once
if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_long_line &&
length($line) > 75 &&
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ use File::Basename;
> use Cwd 'abs_path';
> use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
>
> +use constant BEFORE_SHORTTEXT => 0;
> +use constant IN_SHORTTEXT_BLANKLINE => 1;
> +use constant IN_SHORTTEXT => 2;
> +use constant AFTER_SHORTTEXT => 3;
> +use constant CHECK_NEXT_SHORTTEXT => 4;
> +use constant SHORTTEXT_LIMIT => 75;
probably overly complicated
