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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default
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What if we have a git_fallback "auto" mode which only falls back to
using git if there is no entry in the MAINTAINERS file?  That might
address the concern which Laura raised, without blocking this
change until the MAINTAINERS file is fully populated.

Cheers,

						- Ted