Re: [PATCH 0/10] MAINTAINERS - add script, patterns and misc updates

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:09:28 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 14:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Lots of people's scripts/get_maintainer.pl files won't have the `x' bit
> > set because patch(1) is dumb.  So for reliability it's best to always do
> 
> git at least persisted the "x" bit.
> checkpatch doesn't say to use perl.
> 
> > 	perl ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> 
> OK by me.
> 
> > : akpm:/usr/src/25> perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f fs/ext3/inode.c 
> > : grep: The -P option is not supported
> >     that's odd.  `man grep' on this machine says
> 
> I changed the script grep to use "-E", which is older.
> 
> > : fatal: Not a git repository
> > 
> >     it whines about not being run in a git directory, but does a decent
> >     job anyway.  
> 
> Oh, I see, you've git installed, but not in your
> /usr/src/25 directory.
> 
> I changed the script to verify that a .git directory
> exists before running git.

hm, well, there's benefit in telling the user "hey, you'll get better
results if you run this in your git directory".

> How about with these 2 patches applied?
> 

akpm:/usr/src/25> perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f fs/ext3/inode.c
Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
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