On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:30:40 +0200, Florian Mickler said:

> Your mileage may vary of course, but I can't see any harm done by this
> change. Anyone familiar with get_maintainer.pl can always just put
> "--nogit" in his .get_maintainer.conf file. 

Any chance of getting that to be ~/.get_maintainer.conf rather than
./.get_maintainer.conf? I've just gotten bit like the 3rd or 4th time by "oh but
you didn't create that file in *this* tree" (I usually have a linus git tree, a linux-next
tree, and 3-4 -mm trees lying around).