checkpatch: add ability to coalesce commit descriptions on multiple lines

If a git commit description is split on consecutive lines, coalesce it
before testing.

This allows:

  commit <foo> ("some long
  description")

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches 2015-02-13 14:38:41 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent acd9362c24
commit b671fde057

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@ -2198,6 +2198,13 @@ sub process {
defined $rawlines[$linenr] && defined $rawlines[$linenr] &&
$rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*\("([^"]+)"\)/) { $rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*\("([^"]+)"\)/) {
$orig_desc = $1; $orig_desc = $1;
} elsif ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s+\("[^"]+$/i &&
defined $rawlines[$linenr] &&
$rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*[^"]+"\)/) {
$line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s+\("([^"]+)$/i;
$orig_desc = $1;
$rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*([^"]+)"\)/;
$orig_desc .= " " . $1;
} }
($id, $description) = git_commit_info($orig_commit, ($id, $description) = git_commit_info($orig_commit,