1 From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2 Subject: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer
4 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:51:17 -0800
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21 Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>,
22 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
23 Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>,
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25 To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
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52 On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 10:49 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
53 > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:52:53AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
54 > > On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 19:34 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
55 > > > It appears your scripts are already hooked into get_maintainers.pl which
56 > > > would seem the obvious place to do this? Sadly I don't do perl, though
57 > > > it looks like you're doing pretty much all the work on that anyway.
58 > > Sadly, no it's not the right place.
59 > To query MAINTAINERS? I'd assume that's where you'd want to put that
62 I trimmed cc's and added Andrew Morton and Florian Mickler.
63 First thread link for them: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/15/262
65 I use get_maintainer to find email addresses with
66 "git send-email --cc-cmd=" but sure it could be extended
67 to find some other new information in the MAINTAINERS file.
69 Anyway, I think that get_maintainers isn't the proper tool
70 to rewrite commit subject lines, though it could certainly
71 do the lookup of a key in the MAINTAINERS file.
73 Maybe add a new MAINTAINERS section line something like:
74 "C: CommitSubjectGrammarStyle"
75 where CommitSubjectGrammarStyle is something more
76 information rich than "style 1", "style 2".
78 Perhaps you'll propose a grammar to convert path to header
79 and go through and add these "C:" style entries to the
80 sections you maintain.
82 Also, what would you expect the output to be when a single
83 patch modified files from 2 subsystems that use different