linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] scripts/get_maintainer: increase threshold for --follow to reduce time

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2014 00:35:43 -0400
From:	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scripts/get_maintainer: increase threshold for
 --follow to reduce time

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 22:23 -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
>> ping?
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com> wrote:
>> > get_maintainer tries to follow files with a matching threshold of default 50%.
>> > This is not really necessary as we do not change a file and move it in the same
>> > commit usually. Increasing the threshold to 90% should be sufficient.
<snip>
> While I understand the goal, I wonder if this should
> be in a .gitconfig, not in get_maintainers at all.
>
> (git doesn't seem to have a config entry for score though)
>
> If not, the % should probably be cmd-line configurable.
>
>

The problem is with the default which is at 50% now. That means that a
commit needs to have changed a file by more than 50% -and- moved it in
the same commit. This is highly discouraged and unlikely to happen in
our case.

Even if we have this a cmd-line configuration, setting the default to
90% really makes sense, no?

-- 
Pranith
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