[PATCH for-4.11 v3 0/1] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>]

This version of this series addresses all comments on the mailing list, as well
as some feedback I got in various personal conversations and/or on IRC. For
the people who asked for specific features/workflows:

Ian Jackson: use ./scripts/add_maintainers.pl -p none [-c top]
Reads CCs from unmodified *.patch files and inserts them into the cover letter

George Dunlap: use ./scripts/add_maintainers.pl -p cc---
Tends to add CC blocks after the --- line in *.patches. This option achieves
this behavior/

Julien Grall: use ./scripts/add_maintainers.pl -c ccend
As far as I recall, Julien adds CC blocks into the body of the cover letter.
This option achieves this, but there is no place that always exists other
than before "-- " where the CC block can be insterted.

I made the processing code easily extendable via policies. So if there is any
missed behavior, the tool can easily be extended.

Also note that git send-email does not automatically add people in *=by:
tags to CC lists (with the exception of Singed-off-by). For this I added
the options -t|--tags and --tagscc.

v2 of this patch contained some cleanup to MAINTAINERS which has been broken
out into a separate series: see
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-05/threads.html#00028

Lars Kurth (1):
  Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using
    git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

 scripts/add_maintainers.pl | 512 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 512 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 scripts/add_maintainers.pl

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2.13.0


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