Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:12:15 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [bug] get_maintainer.pl incomplete output |
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:51:18 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> I haven't looked closely at scripts/get_maintainer.pl, but I recently > wrote a patch touching mm/vmpressure.c and it doesn't list the file's > author, Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>. > > Even when I do scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/vmpressure.c, his entry is > missing and git blame attributs >90% of the lines to his authorship. > > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/vmpressure.c > Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> (commit_signer:6/7=86%) > Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> (commit_signer:5/7=71%) > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> (commit_signer:4/7=57%) > Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> (commit_signer:3/7=43%) > "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> (commit_signer:1/7=14%) > linux-mm@kvack.org (open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT) > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
get_maintainer should, by default, answer the question "who should I email about this file". It clearly isn't doing this, and that's a pretty big fail.
I've learned not to trust it, so when I use it I always have to check its homework with "git log | grep Author" :(
Joe, pretty please?
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