From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751472Ab3KEGC4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Nov 2013 01:02:56 -0500 Received: from intranet.asianux.com ([58.214.24.6]:62690 "EHLO intranet.asianux.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750894Ab3KEGCz (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Nov 2013 01:02:55 -0500 X-Spam-Score: -100.8 Message-ID: <527889CB.50807@asianux.com> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:01:47 +0800 From: Chen Gang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Perches CC: Chen Gang F T , Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] get_maintainer: Improve "Author:" rolestats References: <52738E90.6040104@asianux.com> <1383330777.3042.2.camel@joe-AO722> <52750739.6040706@gmail.com> <1383602096.28651.8.camel@joe-AO722> <52785676.8030801@asianux.com> <527859D9.30109@asianux.com> <1383629008.4387.0.camel@joe-AO722> <5278853E.2000600@asianux.com> <1383630652.4387.8.camel@joe-AO722> In-Reply-To: <1383630652.4387.8.camel@joe-AO722> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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