Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: use correct gitroot when running from non-top-level dir

[Peter Collingbourne]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 2:32 PM Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 4:33 PM Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > My workflow usually requires running checkpatch.pl from a subdirectory
> > of the kernel source tree. This works for the most part, but the script
> > will be unable to find the .git directory and will therefore refuse to
> > run any git commands (so, e.g. commit ID verification will fail). Fix
> > it by prepending $root to $gitroot when a root is set.
> >
> > This also requires fixing one root directory assumption in a git
> > invocation.
>
> Ping.

Ping^2.

Peter