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

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:50:09 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.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, 2014-07-16 at 00:35 -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> 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?

Dunno.  If it makes sense, maybe it makes global sense
and should be the git default.  If not, maybe other users
have different needs and need some other cmdline option.



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