On 10/21/2014 03:34 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@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