Without this checkpatch keeps complaining about new/changed files even when MAINTAINERS has been updated. Normal invocations of checkpatch on patch files rather than commit IDs are unaffected.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <[email protected]> Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]> Message-Id: <[email protected]> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 88c858f67c..e47ad878d8 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ if ($chk_branch) { my $num_patches = @patches; for my $hash (@patches) { my $FILE; - open($FILE, '-|', "git", "show", $hash) || + open($FILE, '-|', "git", "show", "--patch-with-stat", $hash) || die "$P: git show $hash - $!\n"; while (<$FILE>) { chomp; -- 2.20.1
