On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:51:18 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>. > > 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 <[email protected]> (commit_signer:6/7=86%) > Michal Hocko <[email protected]> (commit_signer:5/7=71%) > Andrew Morton <[email protected]> (commit_signer:4/7=57%) > Li Zefan <[email protected]> (commit_signer:3/7=43%) > "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]> (commit_signer:1/7=14%) > [email protected] (open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT) > [email protected] (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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
