Re: [PATCH -next] get_maintainer: Improve "Author:" rolestats

Chen Gang
2013-11-05T06:02:56Z

On 11/05/2013 01:50 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 13:42 +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>> On 11/05/2013 01:23 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 10:37 +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>
>> (if so, it seems the related
>> patch need be re-committed again by the related author).
>
> No it doesn't mean that.
>
> Prior to this patch, get_maintainer only used "sign-off-by"
> style lines to find interested parties to send patches to
> when the MAINTAINERS file did not have a specific section
> entry with a matching file pattern to the files that that
> the patch modified.
>
> And there was a defect in the script when no commit history
> at all was found for the files modified during the period
> selected (1 year of git log history by default)
>
> Now, using this newly modified get_maintainer.pl script,
> the commit authors shown in the git log history as well as
> the commit signers are selected.
>
> If there is no git history, the script defect is also fixed.
>

Yeah, our "get_maintainer.pl" need be smart enough to bear it (this
patch let our "get_maintainer.pl" smart enough).

But for this kind of patch, need it re-commit again? (for me, I
recommend to re-commit it again by the related author).

Thanks.
--
Chen Gang