"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:29:14PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: >> >> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:22:41PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: [...] >> >> My patch to get_maintainers.pl triggered a whole thread, while the >> >> message I sent on MAINTAINERS coverage got just one reply so far, and >> >> even that one's really just about get_maintainers.pl. Disappointing. >> >> Looks like we're still looking for an easy technical fix. I doubt there >> >> is one. >> > >> > At least for myself, that's because I'm Cc'd directly on the patch >> > but not on the MAINTAINERS coverage mail. >> > And that's ... because get_maintainers picks my mail from git? >> > >> > See how it's useful now? >> >> Except that's not what happened. >> >> $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl --git-fallback -f scripts/get_maintainer.pl >> >> No output. I picked you from git-log manually. > > Weird. > It works for me: > ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f scripts/get_maintainer.pl > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> (commit_signer:1/1=100%) > > Maybe --git-fallback is broken?
I tried on master (i.e. without my patch, clean tree, with and without --git-fallback. Just tried it again, same result. > Another reason to defer this patch ... Can't see why. But I'm content to defer it until the patch traffic triggered by this discussion quiets down, so we can reevaluate. [...]
