Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: also find maintainers from Mercurial (hg log) | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:27:44 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 18:04 +0200, Marti Raudsepp wrote: > Hi!
Hi Marti.
> Given that there are official hg repositories available from kernel.org, > Mercurial seems to be an acceptable alternative to git. > Does this patch have any chance?
The idea is fine by me.
Here are a couple of things to consider:
There are a few outstanding patches to get_maintainer so this doesn't apply to latest, but it's not problem to fix it up.
What about using hg annotate for the git blame? hg annotate -c $file and hg annotate --template="{desc}\n" -r $rev
Is there an hg annotate select line range capability?
I'm not a user of hg. I did: hg clone http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/ and hg annotate -c -l README and the output line numbering style isn't clear to me.
Maybe it's better not to introduce more arguments.
Would it be acceptable to use --git instead of --hg and just execute hg if .git wasn't available but .hg was? Basically just consider --git the equivalent of --vcs and execute whatever vcs system was supported?
Or maybe just add --vcs instead of --hg so that the perforce/cvs/svn/darcs/VisualSourceSafe/etc users could be happy in the future too...
What do you think?
cheers, Joe
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