Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:03 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> "git info --maintainer drivers/ide/ide-cd.c" or some such would say "Alan 
> Cox <alan@...>".

Perhaps maintainer(s), approver(s), listener(s)?

I think something like this should be a git-goal.
What do the git-wranglers think?

Until a time in the future when a system like that exists,
I suggest keeping MAINTAINERS up-to-date with

F:	pattern

It'll be useful as git-set-maintainer seeds at least.

> sticking  headers on every source file isn't nice anyway --
> it's meta-information and the SCM can maintain it.

It's like looking at $CVS$ keywords.  Unsightly.

cheers,  Joe

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