On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 01:09:19PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > 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 ...
It does? How do you reproduce this behaviour? $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f vl.c Anthony Liguori <aligu...@amazon.com> (supporter:Main loop) Seems to stop if it sees a maintainer. > Different behavior depending on whenever stdout is a tty or not should > be doable too. > > cheers, > Gerd > >
