Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes: > 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).
I don't like context-sensitive defaults. Too much magic. What about this: if get_maintainer.pl comes up empty, it points you to --git-fallback.