Roberto Tyley <roberto.ty...@gmail.com> writes:

> I've not personally run checkpatch.pl (as Peff mentioned, it's not
> actually a documented part of the Git project's recommend contribution
> workflow) - I'm still trying to understand whether it will restrict
> it's errors to just the things that are introduced in a patch,

Yes, it works as a filter to pass a submitted patch through to catch
issues on the new lines.  You can obviously diff the current state
with an empty tree and feed the result to it, which would give you
all the existing issues ;-) but that is not very useful.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to