Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] scripts: Add add-maintainer.py

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-08-28T15:25:06Z

On 28/08/2023 17:14, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 8/28/23 15:48, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Hi Bjorn,
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 3:37 PM Bjorn Andersson
>> <quic_bjorande@quicinc.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:14:41AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 26 Aug 2023, Guru Das Srinagesh <quic_gurus@quicinc.com> wrote:
>>>>> This script runs get_maintainer.py on a given patch file (or multiple
>>>>> patch files) and adds its output to the patch file in place with the
>>>>> appropriate email headers "To: " or "Cc: " as the case may be. These new
>>>>> headers are added after the "From: " line in the patch.
>>>>
>>>> FWIW, I personally prefer tooling to operate on git branches and commits
>>>> than patches. For me, the patches are just an intermediate step in
>>>> getting the commits from my git branch to the mailing list. That's not
>>>> where I add the Cc's, but rather in the commits in my local branch,
>>>> where they're preserved. YMMV.
>>>>
>>>
>>> May I ask how you add/carry the recipients in a commit?
>>
>> I guess below a "---" line in the commit description?
>
> Does that do anything special in commit log? I'd expect (and I do it that
> way) it's rather just adding a

It does. It goes away.
>
> Cc: Name <email>
>
> in the tag area where s-o-b, reviewed-by etc are added.

Why storing autogenerated scripts/get_maintainer.pl CC-entries in commit
msg? The non-maintainer-output but the automated output? There is no
single need to store automated output of get_maintainers.pl in the git
log. It can be easily re-created at any given time, thus its presence in
the git history is redundant and obfuscates the log.

Best regards,
Krzysztof