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

Joe Perches
2010-09-11T00:31:17Z

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 20:13 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Whoever made --git the default was on crack and this needs to be
> reverted ASAP.

That'd be Linus' suggestion and it's been the default
for get_maintainers since it was developed.

Reverted? no.
Changed, maybe.

I hardly use the --git option and I do many tree-wide changes.

If you don't like it, you could use a .get_maintainer.conf
file entry until some consensus is reached later.