Subject: Re: [patch v4] checkpatch: Signature format verification
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: anish <anish198519851985@gmail.com>, davej@redhat.com, apw@shadowen.org,
        akpm@linux-foundation.org, vapier@gentoo.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, man.k1983@gmail.com
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Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 12:33:45 -0700
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On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 15:22 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 11:45 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 14:16 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > I once had my quilt mail send crap to LKML because one of the Cc's in a
> > > patch I pulled was missing the ending ">".
> > $ git log --pretty=oneline -E -i --grep "-by:.*<[^>]+$" | wc -l
> > 129
> > But that's out of 232816 non-merge commits.
> Even so, it would have been nice, because I ended up sending a crap load
> of emails to LKML without any content. I still use quilt as I like to
> verify what I send. But it took a dump on the missing ">" and caused all
> patches to be sent out as crap.

No doubt.

This concept should also verify the "To: " and "cc: " tag lines.

cheers, Joe

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