commit bcf4271d4bc3 ("checkpatch: allow not using -f with files that
are in git") in linux-next causes checkpatch to emit a fatal message:

fatal: <file>: '<file>' is outside repository at '<kernel_dir>'

Fix that by sending git's error output to /dev/null instead.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@inria.fr>
Reviewed-by: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@inria.fr>
---
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3e474072aa90..469f8e7456df 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ sub git_is_single_file {
 
        return 0 if ((which("git") eq "") || !(-e "$gitroot"));
 
-       my $output = `${git_command} ls-files -- $filename`;
+       my $output = `${git_command} ls-files -- $filename 2>/dev/null`;
        my $count = $output =~ tr/\n//;
        return $count eq 1 && $output =~ m{^${filename}$};
 }


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