On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 5:07 AM Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > What does it do if we're not operating in a git directory? For example, > I work in /usr/src/25 and my git repo is in ../git26. >
If .git is not found, the check is disabled > Also, what happens relatively often is that someone quotes a linux-next > or long-term-stable hash. If the user has those trees in the git repo, > I assume they won't be informed of the inappropriate hash? > In this case it won't warn, but this should not be a problem, as the hash doesn't change following a merge. The problem is just if the other tree gets rebased, or if the other tree gets never merged, e.g. stable/linux-* Cheers, -- Matteo Croce per aspera ad upstream

