On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:46:54AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Renames look like this with git-diff(1) when diff.renames = true is set: > > diff --git a/a b/b > similarity index 100% > rename from a > rename to b > > This raises the "Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch" > error because checkpatch.pl only considers a diff valid if it contains > at least one "@@" hunk. > > This patch accepts renames and copies too so that checkpatch.pl exits > successfully when a diff only renames/copies files. The git diff > extended header format is described on the git-diff(1) man page. > > Reported-by: Colin Lord <cl...@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> > --- > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
There is no maintainer for checkpatch.pl, so... Thanks, applied to my block tree: https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block Stefan
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