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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] binfmt_misc updates for 4.7+ merge window
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On Wed, 2016-07-27 at 20:12 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> 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.

yes.
$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f fs/binfmt_misc.c 
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> (maintainer:FILESYSTEMS (VFS
and infrastructure))
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org (open list:FILESYSTEMS (VFS and
infrastructure))
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
joe@XPS-9350:~/linux/next$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f
fs/binfmt_misc.c --git
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> (maintainer:FILESYSTEMS (VFS
and
infrastructure),commit_signer:2/3=67%,authored:2/3=67%,added_lines:10/49
=20%,removed_lines:14/16=88%)
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
(commit_signer:1/3=33%,authored:1/3=33%,added_lines:39/49=80%,removed_li
nes:2/16=12%)
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> (commit_signer:1/3=33%)
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org (open list:FILESYSTEMS (VFS and
infrastructure))
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)

> 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

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