From abdb557d8339ad94e91cfdafff520500077b1d0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 08:12:20 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] check_fixes: minor cleanups

The printf version of the messages didn't improve things
---
 check_fixes | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/check_fixes b/check_fixes
index 954ad55..0bd89e6 100755
--- a/check_fixes
+++ b/check_fixes
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Linus_tree="${HOME}/kernels/linus.git"
 split_re='^([[:xdigit:]]+)[[:space:]]+(.*)$'
 nl=$'\n'
 
+# Strip the leading and training spaces from a string
 strip_spaces()
 {
 	[[ "$1" =~ ^[[:space:]]*(.*[^[:space:]])[[:space:]]*$ ]]
@@ -24,14 +25,24 @@ strip_spaces()
 for c in $commits; do
 
 	commit_log=$(git log -1 --format='%h ("%s")' "$c")
-	commit_msg=$(printf 'In commit\n\n  %s\n\n' "$commit_log")
+	commit_msg="In commit
+
+  $commit_log
+
+"
 
 	fixes_lines=$(git log -1 --format='%B' "$c" |
 			grep -i '^[[:space:]]*Fixes:')
 
 	while read -r fline; do
 		f=$(echo "$fline" | sed 's/^[[:space:]]*Fixes:[[:space:]]*//i')
-		fixes_msg=$(printf 'Fixes tag\n\n  %s\n\n has these problem(s):\n\n' "$fline")
+		fixes_msg="Fixes tag
+
+  $fline
+
+has these problem(s):
+
+"
 		sha=
 		subject=
 		msg=
@@ -62,7 +73,7 @@ for c in $commits; do
 		fi
 
 		# strip matching quotes at the start and end of the subject
-		# the second characters in the classes are
+		# the unicode characters in the classes are
 		# U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
 		# U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
 		# U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
-- 
2.39.5