From b671fde0572af42495ce3183969b0cafa98fd9ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:38:41 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: add ability to coalesce commit descriptions on
 multiple lines

If a git commit description is split on consecutive lines, coalesce it
before testing.

This allows:

  commit <foo> ("some long
  description")

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 41223c946808..6a3baa0bdde8 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2198,6 +2198,13 @@ sub process {
 				 defined $rawlines[$linenr] &&
 				 $rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*\("([^"]+)"\)/) {
 				$orig_desc = $1;
+			} elsif ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s+\("[^"]+$/i &&
+				 defined $rawlines[$linenr] &&
+				 $rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*[^"]+"\)/) {
+				$line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s+\("([^"]+)$/i;
+				$orig_desc = $1;
+				$rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*([^"]+)"\)/;
+				$orig_desc .= " " . $1;
 			}
 
 			($id, $description) = git_commit_info($orig_commit,
-- 
2.20.1