linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] binfmt_misc updates for 4.7+ merge window

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:12:58 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
	<containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] binfmt_misc updates for 4.7+ merge window

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>
> It'll continue to list only Al Viro unless a --git cmdline option
> is specified and almost no one uses that.

Did you actually try it.

The get_maintainer.pl script should use "--git-fallback" by default,
so in the absence of a an exact match (which it won't have) it _will_
in fact pick out recent git authorship.

(Where "recent" means "in the last year" by default).

I depend that recent authorship matching quite a lot. In fact, I think
the reason nobody uses "--git" is that the default "--git-fallback" is
sufficient most of the time.

                Linus