Without this checkpatch keeps complaining about new/changed files even
when MAINTAINERS has been updated. Normal invocations of checkpatch on
patch files rather than commit IDs are unaffected.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 88c858f67c..e47ad878d8 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ if ($chk_branch) {
my $num_patches = @patches;
for my $hash (@patches) {
my $FILE;
- open($FILE, '-|', "git", "show", $hash) ||
+ open($FILE, '-|', "git", "show", "--patch-with-stat", $hash) ||
die "$P: git show $hash - $!\n";
while (<$FILE>) {
chomp;
--
2.20.1
