Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: name the ext4 dev branch

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 11:32:00AM +0800, Matthias Goergens wrote:
> For the entries, my plan is to start with the roughly 160 T: lines
> that name a repository whose HEAD is already in mainline while
> linux-next pulls a different branch from it: one small patch per
> repository, sent to that entry's maintainers as its own thread.  I'd
> send a few first, to maintainers who usually respond quickly, and then
> the rest in larger batches once the first ones have landed or drawn
> comments.  You know far better than I do how maintainers take this
> kind of tree-wide cleanup, so I'd welcome your view on that approach
> before I start.

Explicitly documenting branches in MAINTAINERS sounds good, but in
addition to that, HEAD should also be made to point to the correct
branch (at least in repositories where there is only one main
development branch).  This can be done using gitolite's symbolic-ref
command: https://korg.docs.kernel.org/gitolite/index.html#symbolic-ref

That is how https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux.git points
to the 'for-next' branch by default, for example.

- Eric