linux-kernel - get_maintainers.pl is rude, was Re: [PATCH 05/19] USB: inode.c: move assignment out of if () block

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Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:54:03 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: get_maintainers.pl is rude, was Re: [PATCH 05/19] USB: inode.c:
	move assignment out of if () block

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 02:40:04PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl is bringing up your name for this file as you
> have modified it in the past:

I've probably modified a large part of files in the kernel in the past.

And I'm annoyed about this stupid behavior in get_maintainers.pl.

Joe, can you please fix your bloody script to not report me for every
goddamnt file I touched once?  Authorship of changes to a file is
a completely wrong metric.  I can see the point to guess it by
non-maintainer signoffs, but authorship is plain wrong and highly
annoying.

If you're unwilling to fix this please at least add a get_maintainers.ignore
file and add me as the first entry.  Thanks!
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