Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl

Kyle Moffett
2007-08-15T13:53:51Z

On Aug 15, 2007, at 09:39:44, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 08/15/2007 03:33 PM, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> [ git info --maintainer ]
>
>> I'd really _love_ a tool that does all that what you've proposed
>> above! But why does it have to be "git-info" or anything in the
>> git(7) suite for that matter? This sounds like a job for a
>> different specialised tool, long with ".metatags" kind of files
>> dispersed in the source tree.
>
> To automatically move (and delete) the meta-data alongside the
> files themselves is a reason.
>
> More generally -- shouldn't it? This is about source management
> (well, maybe more about project management, but...) and the source
> code management tool looks to be the right place for that. The
> different parts of git are somewhat/fairly stand-alone as is, no?

If you were going to do that I'd just suggest making git aware of the
"user.*" extended attributes and having it save those into the git
repo along with the permission data.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett