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From:   Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:53:28 +0200
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Subject: checkpatch: SPDX integration breaks --root
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Hi,

I am now getting python errors when using --root with checkpatch.pl
and not being inside the linux repository.

$ ./linux-next/scripts/checkpatch.pl --root=/usr/src/linux-next
--strict -f linux-next/Makefile
FAIL: /usr/src
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File /usr/src/linux-next/scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 230, in <module>
   repo = git.Repo(os.getcwd())
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/repo/base.py", line 156, in __init__
   raise InvalidGitRepositoryError(epath)
InvalidGitRepositoryError: /usr/src

total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 1726 lines checked

linux-next/Makefile has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.