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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to
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On 10/21/2014 03:34 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> On 10/20/2014 04:15 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> What do you want to happen in this case?
>>> Won't this cause even more patches to fall to the floor?
>>>
>>> The benefit seems marginal, the risk high.
>>
>> I agree with Michael.
>>
>> Can we detect if get_maintainer.pl is invoked as a cccmd, and in this
>> case default to --no-git-fallback?  If it is invoked manually, I would
>> like to show the committers (I will then cherry pick the right ones).
> 
> I don't like context-sensitive defaults.  Too much magic.
> 
> What about this: if get_maintainer.pl comes up empty, it points you to
> --git-fallback.

Sounds fair enough!

Paolo