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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] binfmt_misc updates for 4.7+ merge window
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:12:58 -0700
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Joe Perches <joe-6d6DIl74uiNBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> It'll continue to list only Al Viro unless a --git cmdline option
> is specified and almost no one uses that.

Did you actually try it.

The get_maintainer.pl script should use "--git-fallback" by default,
so in the absence of a an exact match (which it won't have) it _will_
in fact pick out recent git authorship.

(Where "recent" means "in the last year" by default).

I depend that recent authorship matching quite a lot. In fact, I think
the reason nobody uses "--git" is that the default "--git-fallback" is
sufficient most of the time.

                Linus