On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:47 PM Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 19:26 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > > Recently, commit 4f6ad8aa1eac ("checkpatch: move repeated word test") > > moved the repeated word test to check for more file types. But after > > this, if checkpatch.pl is run on MAINTAINERS, it generates several > > new warnings of the type: > > > > WARNING: Possible repeated word: 'git' > [] > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > [] > > @@ -3063,7 +3063,7 @@ sub process { > > } > > > > next if ($first ne $second); > > - next if ($first eq 'long'); > > + next if ($first =~ /(?:long|git)$/); > > Nak. This needs a leading ^ otherwise words > like "belong" and "digit" match as well. > > next if ($first =~ /^(?:long|git)$/); > >
Yikes, that was silly of me. I will correct and send you the updated version. Thanks, Dwaipayan.