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}$}; }