On Mo, 2014-10-20 at 20:38 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 10/20/2014 04:15 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > What do you want to happen in this case? > > Won't this cause even more patches to fall to the floor? > > > > The benefit seems marginal, the risk high. > > I agree with Michael. > > Can we detect if get_maintainer.pl is invoked as a cccmd, and in this > case default to --no-git-fallback? If it is invoked manually, I would > like to show the committers (I will then cherry pick the right ones).
How about making "get_maintainer.pl --git-fallback" actually do what it says? Right now git it *not* used as fallback, it goes to git log unconditionally, even if there are hits in MAINTAINERS ... Different behavior depending on whenever stdout is a tty or not should be doable too. cheers, Gerd
