Re: [PULL 5/8] gitlab: work harder to avoid false positives in checkpatch

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 03:33:00PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> This copies the behaviour of patchew's configuration to make the diff
> algorithm generate a minimal diff.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
> Message-Id: <20210602153247.27651-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> 
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml
> index 8e30872164..7e685c6a65 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml
> @@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ check-patch:
>    image: $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/qemu/centos8:latest
>    needs:
>      job: amd64-centos8-container
> -  script: .gitlab-ci.d/check-patch.py
> +  script:
> +    - git config --local diff.renamelimit 0
> +    - git config --local diff.renames True
> +    - git config --local diff.algorithm histogram
> +    - .gitlab-ci.d/check-patch.py

No objection to merging this patch as is, but I wonder if we ought to
make scripts/checkpatch.pl set these options explicitly when it runs
git, eg

   git -c diff.renamelimit=0 -c diff.renames=True ...etc show

so that everyone who runs checkpatch.pl benefits from the improvement.

Regards,
Daniel
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