On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 09:46 -0500, Tom Saeger wrote: > Add get_maintainer.pl option to warn about invalid > "F" and "X" patterns found in MAINTAINERS file(s).
Hi Tom. I've had a similar script for many years. This implementation is very inefficient as it runs git ls-files once for each file pattern. It's much more efficient to do a global git ls-files once and store the result and then do a local grep for pattern matches. cheers, Joe
