Problem facing while running checkpatch.pl on linux-next tree

[anish singh]

On Jul 27, 2014 2:01 AM, "Rahul Garg" <rahul.lnmiit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to run checkpatch.pl on linux-next tree's staging folder.
> But whatever sub directory, I try to run it on. It is giving me the
> same error for all the files :
>
> ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch
Use -f for giving files as input
If you have a real patch then just give the patch name
>
> I thought that it might be a problem with my git. So I clone the git tree
again.
>
> So can anyone help me, what am I missing ?
>
> Regards
> Rahul
>
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