On Thu, 2016-08-11 at 22:14 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > Hi Joe, Hi Wolfram.
One of my favorite xkcd comics: https://xkcd.com/1172/ > commit 4cad35a7ca690eabf0d241062ce9e59693ec03e7 ("get_maintainer.pl: > reduce need for command-line option -f") makes my scripts very noisy. > I regularly use get_maintainer to create CC lists for patch series > generated with coccinelle. These patch series are stored outside my > Linux git repo. Now I get for every vcs_file_exists() a warning from > git-ls-files: > > fatal: > /home/wsa/Kernel/string-refactor/usb_alloc_urb/patches/sound/usb/0001-ALSA-usb-caiaq-audio-don-t-print-error-when-allocati.patch: > > '/home/wsa/Kernel/string-refactor/usb_alloc_urb/patches/sound/usb/0001-ALSA-usb-caiaq-audio-don-t-print-error-when-allocati.patch' > is outside repository > > Git version 2.8.1 here. > > Can you take care of that? Maybe this? diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl index 49a00d5..aed4511 100755 --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl @@ -2136,9 +2136,11 @@ sub vcs_file_exists { my $cmd = $VCS_cmds{"file_exists_cmd"}; $cmd =~ s/(\$\w+)/$1/eeg; # interpolate $cmd - + $cmd .= " 2>&1"; $exists = &{$VCS_cmds{"execute_cmd"}}($cmd); + return 0 if ($? != 0); + return $exists; }