On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:51:18 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rient...@google.com> 
wrote:

> I haven't looked closely at scripts/get_maintainer.pl, but I recently 
> wrote a patch touching mm/vmpressure.c and it doesn't list the file's 
> author, Anton Vorontsov <anton.voront...@linaro.org>.
> 
> Even when I do scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/vmpressure.c, his entry is 
> missing and git blame attributs >90% of the lines to his authorship.
> 
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/vmpressure.c 
> Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org> (commit_signer:6/7=86%)
> Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz> (commit_signer:5/7=71%)
> Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> (commit_signer:4/7=57%)
> Li Zefan <lize...@huawei.com> (commit_signer:3/7=43%)
> "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kir...@shutemov.name> (commit_signer:1/7=14%)
> linux...@kvack.org (open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT)
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)

get_maintainer should, by default, answer the question "who should I
email about this file".  It clearly isn't doing this, and that's a
pretty big fail.

I've learned not to trust it, so when I use it I always have to check
its homework with "git log | grep Author" :(

Joe, pretty please?
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