scripts: reverse order of checked commits

The list of git commits to check was in the reversed order.
Also add a comment in the help of checkpatches.sh about list input.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Tested-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>

diff --git a/scripts/check-git-log.sh b/scripts/check-git-log.sh
index 6137098..1e05cf2 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/check-git-log.sh
+++ b/scripts/check-git-log.sh
@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@ fi
 
 range=${1:-origin/master..}
 
-commits=$(git log --format='%h' $range)
-headlines=$(git log --format='%s' $range)
-bodylines=$(git log --format='%b' $range)
-fixes=$(git log --format='%h %s' $range | grep -i ': *fix' | cut -d' ' -f1)
-tags=$(git log --format='%b' $range | grep -i -e 'by *:' -e 'fix.*:')
+commits=$(git log --format='%h' --reverse $range)
+headlines=$(git log --format='%s' --reverse $range)
+bodylines=$(git log --format='%b' --reverse $range)
+fixes=$(git log --format='%h %s' --reverse $range | grep -i ': *fix' | cut -d' ' -f1)
+tags=$(git log --format='%b' --reverse $range | grep -i -e 'by *:' -e 'fix.*:')
 bytag='\(Reported\|Suggested\|Signed-off\|Acked\|Reviewed\|Tested\)-by:'
 
 # check headline format (spacing, no punctuation, no code)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatches.sh b/scripts/checkpatches.sh
index 4addde4..622a5b6 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatches.sh
+++ b/scripts/checkpatches.sh
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ print_usage () {
 
        Run Linux kernel checkpatch.pl with DPDK options.
        The environment variable DPDK_CHECKPATCH_PATH must be set.
+
+       The patches to check can be from files specified on the command line,
+       or latest git commits limited with -n option (default limit: origin/master).
        END_OF_HELP
 }
 
@@ -96,9 +99,9 @@ check () { # <patch> <commit> <title>
 
 if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
        if [ $number -eq 0 ] ; then
-               commits=$(git rev-list origin/master..)
+               commits=$(git rev-list --reverse origin/master..)
        else
-               commits=$(git rev-list --max-count=$number HEAD)
+               commits=$(git rev-list --reverse --max-count=$number HEAD)
        fi
        for commit in $commits ; do
                subject=$(git log --format='%s' -1 $commit)