Git dropped the period from its "ambiguous SHA1" error message in commit 0c99171ad2 ("get_short_sha1: mark ambiguity error for translation"), circa 2016. Drop the period from checkpatch's associated query so as to match both the old and new error messages.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopher...@intel.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 93a7edfe0f05..ef3642c53100 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ sub git_commit_info { return ($id, $desc) if ($#lines < 0); - if ($lines[0] =~ /^error: short SHA1 $commit is ambiguous\./) { + if ($lines[0] =~ /^error: short SHA1 $commit is ambiguous/) { # Maybe one day convert this block of bash into something that returns # all matching commit ids, but it's very slow... # -- 2.22.0