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Message-ID: <20100513155839.GE5132@cr0.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 May 2010 23:58:39 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>
Cc:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: add
 .get_maintainer.conf default options file

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:25:49AM +0200, Florian Mickler wrote:
>On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:30:42 +0800
>Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 09:56:03PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> >Allow the use of a .get_maintainer.conf file to control the
>> >default options applied when scripts/get_maintainer.pl is run.
>> >
>> >.get_maintainer.conf can contain any valid command-line argument.
>> >
>> >File contents are prepended to any additional command line arguments.
>> >
>> >Multiple lines may be used, blank lines ignored, # is a comment.
>> 
>> Do we really have to do this? This looks odd to me.
>
>it's a little hackish, but the code impact is small. if you prefer
>standard config-file syntax (i.e. "bla=" ) check the patch below. 
>

Better somwhat, but...

>joe, what do you think?
>
>> If the user of get_maintainer.pl uses some long command line
>> arguments, to save his input, he should use bash aliases, not
>> configure files. I never see configure files used like this.
>
>bash aliases don't work (at least here) with "git send-email --cc-cmd="
>
...
>> 
>> Also, it doesn't worthy a configure file for such a script like
>> get_maintainer.pl.
>
>hm.. the only other way to use it via git send-email would be a wrapper
>script? 
>

I still think we should avoid config files as possible as we can.

Thanks.
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