From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:18:30 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: check_fixes: give more advice
X-Git-Url: https://git.ozlabs.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aad872600dbc3ca8ff127a9037828ee95b02f851;p=next-scripts

check_fixes: give more advice
---

diff --git a/check_fixes b/check_fixes
index 46a0b37..63abf88 100755
--- a/check_fixes
+++ b/check_fixes
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Linus_tree="${HOME}/kernels/linus.git"
 
 split_re='^([Cc][Oo][Mm][Mm][Ii][Tt])?[[:space:]]*([[:xdigit:]]{5,})([[:space:]]*)(.*)$'
 nl=$'\n'
+tab=$'\t'
 
 # Strip the leading and training spaces from a string
 strip_spaces()
@@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ has these problem(s):
 		target_subject=$(strip_spaces "$target_subject")
 
 		if [ "$subject" != "${target_subject:0:${#subject}}" ]; then
-			msg="${msg:+${msg}${nl}}  - Subject does not match target commit subject"
+			msg="${msg:+${msg}${nl}}  - Subject does not match target commit subject${nl}    Just use${nl}${tab}git log -1 --format='Fixes: %h ("%s")'"
 		fi
 		lsha=$(cd "$Linus_tree" && git rev-parse -q --verify "$sha")
 		if [ -z "$lsha" ]; then