From c6561586f0f858635ccda0bfa97046e4e82af276 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:41:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: restrict cases where it falls back to --git The list emitted by --git-fallback often leads inexperienced contributors to add pointless CCs. While not discouraging usage of --git-fallback, we want to: 1) disable the fallback if only some files lack a maintainer $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f util/cutils.c hw/ide/core.c Kevin Wolf (odd fixer:IDE) Stefan Hajnoczi (odd fixer:IDE) This behavior is taken even if --git-fallback is specified. 2) warn the contributors about what we're doing, asking them to use their common sense: $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f util/cutils.c get_maintainer.pl: No maintainers found, printing recent contributors. get_maintainer.pl: Do not blindly cc: them on patches! Use common sense. Luiz Capitulino (commit_signer:1/2=50%) ... $ Explicitly disabling the fallback will not result in the warning message: $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f util/cutils.c --no-git-fallback $ echo $? 0 (Returning 1 would break usage of scripts/get_maintainer.pl as a cccmd for git-send-email). Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl index 906dcbe468..af68c6c92d 100755 --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl @@ -652,6 +652,15 @@ sub get_maintainers { } if ($email) { + if (! $interactive) { + $email_git_fallback = 0 if @email_to > 0 || @list_to > 0 || $email_git || $email_git_blame; + if ($email_git_fallback) { + print STDERR "get_maintainer.pl: No maintainers found, printing recent contributors.\n"; + print STDERR "get_maintainer.pl: Do not blindly cc: them on patches! Use common sense.\n"; + print STDERR "\n"; + } + } + foreach my $file (@files) { if ($email_git || ($email_git_fallback && !$exact_pattern_match_hash{$file})) {