The checkpatch test tests the patches on the merg-request, as they
branch off from master (or one of the stable branches).
It thus need the full git history, but the git repository might be a
shallow clone. Fix it.
When opening a merge request from a fork of NetworkManager, then the
pipeline runs with the a checkout of the fork. That means, checkpatch
would compare the branch against "master" (or "nm-x-y" stable branches)
of the fork, instead of upstream.
That doesn't seem too useful. Instead, also add upstream NetworkManager
as git remote, fetch the branches, and use the branches from there as
base for checkpatch.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/issues/255
The main purpose of "checkpatch-feature-branch.sh" is to test all
patches of a feature branch. When we run the script against master
(or nm-1-*), then there is no feature branch.
Previously, the script would just error out.
That is not very useful, in particular as we call this from gitlab-ci,
which also runs on master.
Instead, in that case, test the HEAD.
This takes current HEAD branch, and finds all the commits what
are not on master or one of the nm-1-* branches, and runs
checkpatch.pl on each.
The use is to run checkpatch.pl on all patches of a feature
branch.
