On Mon, 02/19 13:56, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 17 February 2018 at 13:23, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > >> If you persuade git to use the --minimal, --patience or --histogram > >> git diff option when generating these patches you'll find that it > >> doesn't produce unreadable patches that provoke all the checkpatch > >> warnings. > > > > I think this is patchew getting confused > > Oh yes, sorry. Fam, can we update patchew's git config to use > git config --global diff.algorithm histogram > (equivalently, algorithm = histogram in the .gitconfig) -- that > way the patches it runs checkpatch on are more likely to be > formatted so that they minimise spurious checkpatch output, I think.
Updated. (With s/--global/--local/ along with other diff options, in the testing command list: git config --local diff.renamelimit 0 git config --local diff.renames True git config --local diff.algorithm histogram ) Fam
