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SubjectRe: [REGRESSION] get_maintainer: very noisy since '-f' is optional
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On Thu, 2016-08-11 at 22:14 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Hi Joe,

Hi Wolfram.

One of my favorite xkcd comics: https://xkcd.com/1172/

> commit 4cad35a7ca690eabf0d241062ce9e59693ec03e7 ("get_maintainer.pl:
> reduce need for command-line option -f") makes my scripts very noisy.

> I regularly use get_maintainer to create CC lists for patch series
> generated with coccinelle. These patch series are stored outside my
> Linux git repo. Now I get for every vcs_file_exists() a warning from
> git-ls-files:
>
> fatal: /home/wsa/Kernel/string-refactor/usb_alloc_urb/patches/sound/usb/0001-ALSA-usb-caiaq-audio-don-t-print-error-when-allocati.patch: '/home/wsa/Kernel/string-refactor/usb_alloc_urb/patches/sound/usb/0001-ALSA-usb-caiaq-audio-don-t-print-error-when-allocati.patch' is outside repository
>
> Git version 2.8.1 here.
>
> Can you take care of that?

Maybe this?

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 49a00d5..aed4511 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -2136,9 +2136,11 @@ sub vcs_file_exists {
 
     my $cmd = $VCS_cmds{"file_exists_cmd"};
     $cmd =~ s/(\$\w+)/$1/eeg; # interpolate $cmd
-
+    $cmd .= " 2>&1";
     $exists = &{$VCS_cmds{"execute_cmd"}}($cmd);
 
+    return 0 if ($? != 0);
+
     return $exists;
 }
 

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