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Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: apply all .get_maintainer.ignore files
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 19:30 +0800, Jeffy Chen wrote:
> Currently we are searching "./:$ENV{HOME}/:.scripts/" for ignore file,
> but would always get "./.get_maintainer.ignore" only.

That's the point.

It allows you to have specific .ignore files for various projects.

> This patch applies all .get_maintainer.ignore, so it would be easier to
> add ignore list locally.

Why stack?  What's the value in that?