Re: [GSoC14][RFC] Is there any interest in adding a port of checkpatch.pl to contrib/?

2014-03-19 Thread demerphq
On 18 March 2014 02:38, Jacopo Notarstefano jacopo.notarstef...@gmail.com wrote: 3. As far as I can tell, checkpatch needs to be run from the root folder of a linux repository clone. Cloning several hundred MBs for a single perl script looks a little foolish to me. If that is your worry maybe

Re: [GSoC14][RFC] Is there any interest in adding a port of checkpatch.pl to contrib/?

2014-03-18 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jacopo Notarstefano jacopo.notarstef...@gmail.com writes: It seems to me that the topic of adding the checkpatch.pl script to Git's source tree has cropped up several times in the past, as recently as a couple of days ago: $gmane/243607. It should be noted that its usage for its sake has

Re: [GSoC14][RFC] Is there any interest in adding a port of checkpatch.pl to contrib/?

2014-03-18 Thread Jacopo Notarstefano
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: I've never said any such thing. I only said I am not enthused against a proposal to add a build target that runs checkpatch or equivalent over *all* existing code, which will invite needless churn (read again the part

Re: [GSoC14][RFC] Is there any interest in adding a port of checkpatch.pl to contrib/?

2014-03-17 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Jacopo Notarstefano jacopo.notarstef...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me that the topic of adding the checkpatch.pl script to Git's source tree has cropped up several times in the past, as recently as a couple of days ago: $gmane/243607. It should be noted that