On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:33 PM Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 22:07 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > > Recently, commit 4f6ad8aa1eac ("checkpatch: move repeated word test") > > moved the repeated word test to check for more file types. But after > > this, if checkpatch.pl is run on MAINTAINERS, it generates several > > new warnings of the type: > > Perhaps instead of adding more content checks so that > word boundaries are not something like \S but also > not punctuation so that content like > > git git:// > @size size > > does not match? > > Hi, So currently the words are trimmed of non alphabets before the check:
while ($rawline =~ /\b($word_pattern) (?=($word_pattern))/g) { my $first = $1; my $second = $2; where, the word_pattern is: my $word_pattern = '\b[A-Z]?[a-z]{2,}\b'; So do you perhaps recommend modifying this word pattern to include the punctuation as well rather than trimming them off? Thanks, Dwaipayan.