Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default

Mark Brown
2010-09-10T11:07:45Z

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:47:45AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 11:18 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > That might be a nice option (though it will still give false positives).

> Anything that uses git will give false positives.
> Anything that uses MAINTAINERS will give false positives.

Agreed, the main problem here is people thinking the tool is more magic
than it actually is rather than a problem in the tool itself.

> Maybe --rolestats should be extended to include line counts
> if --git-blame is used.

> --git-blame can be very slow, it shouldn't be a default option.

Yes, agreed.