linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default

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Message-ID: <20100910110742.GC7259@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>
Date:	Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:07:42 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	florian@...kler.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by
 default

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:47:45AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 11:18 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > That might be a nice option (though it will still give false positives).

> Anything that uses git will give false positives.
> Anything that uses MAINTAINERS will give false positives.

Agreed, the main problem here is people thinking the tool is more magic
than it actually is rather than a problem in the tool itself.

> Maybe --rolestats should be extended to include line counts
> if --git-blame is used.

> --git-blame can be very slow, it shouldn't be a default option.

Yes, agreed.
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