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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2f61f54b8940..e9618ca31251 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -867,6 +867,7 @@ sub git_commit_info {
# echo "commit $(cut -c 1-12,41-)"
# done
} elsif ($lines[0] =~ /^fatal: ambiguous argument '$commit': unknown revision or path not in the working tree\./) {
+ $id = undef;
} else {
$id = substr($lines[0], 0, 12);
$desc = substr($lines[0], 41);
@@ -2606,7 +2607,8 @@ sub process {
($id, $description) = git_commit_info($orig_commit,
$id, $orig_desc);
- if ($short || $long || $space || $case || ($orig_desc ne $description) || !$hasparens) {
+ if (defined($id) &&
+ ($short || $long || $space || $case || ($orig_desc ne $description) || !$hasparens)) {
ERROR("GIT_COMMIT_ID",
"Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> (\"<title line>\")' - ie: '${init_char}ommit $id (\"$description\")'\n" . $herecurr);
}