On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 11:22:41AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2020-06-11 at 15:59 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leo...@mellanox.com> > > > > The execution of scripts/checkpatch.pl in folder outside of git produces > > complains about invalid commit ID, despite having valid one. > > There is already a slightly different test for this in -next > It also uses a environment test for GIT_DIR.
If you are referring to this commit https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/scripts/checkpatch.pl?h=next-20200611&id=5bff933936a76a839e3c7f47f193cbf0d9904543 It didn't work for me, because I'm not setting GIT_DIR environment and use "--root" switch from checkpatch.pl. > > Try that one. It doesn't make too much sense to have two options to configure git directory, one is GIT_DIR and another --root. Thanks > >
