On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, 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. >
I am in favor of this. Empty output does not tell a new contributors what to do next. So either this or document it on corresponding wiki page. -- Kirill
