Messages in this thread | | | From | Jianyu Zhan <> | Date | Thu, 3 Mar 2016 11:00:54 +0800 | Subject | about get_maintainer.pl not showing the original author of the modified code |
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Hi, Joe,
recently in this patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/2/281,
I found the original author of the modified code was not suggested as a patch reviewer.
This surprised me at first. But later I realized that it is not trivial to define "original author", since the last modification might be just code polishing. To dig out the original author, we might need go up the commit history and git must be equipped with ability of pattern recognization to analyze code.
What do you think?
Regards, Jianyu Zhan
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