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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2020-10-15 20:10:37 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-16 11:11:19 -0700
commit6343f6b71f83af8ebfc6f9740d1d74f2db88e6b0 (patch)
treed2d4820637fadf86920c364eff322aca76299f14 /scripts
parentcdfe2d22047661c5e0ecf8f28e7e8843ee177aff (diff)
downloadlinux-6343f6b71f83af8ebfc6f9740d1d74f2db88e6b0.tar.gz
get_maintainer: exclude MAINTAINERS file(s) from --git-fallback
MAINTAINERS files generally have no specific maintainer but are updated by
individuals for subsystems all over the source tree.

Exclude MAINTAINERS file(s) from --git-fallback searches so the unlucky
individuals that update the files the most are not shown by default.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2bacb0a9c06fbb6d56a43bf930e808c74243c908.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/get_maintainer.pl6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 5a36354a38cc..2075db0c08b8 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -957,8 +957,10 @@ sub get_maintainers {
 
     foreach my $file (@files) {
 	if ($email &&
-	    ($email_git || ($email_git_fallback &&
-			    !$exact_pattern_match_hash{$file}))) {
+	    ($email_git ||
+	     ($email_git_fallback &&
+	      $file !~ /MAINTAINERS$/ &&
+	      !$exact_pattern_match_hash{$file}))) {
 	    vcs_file_signoffs($file);
 	}
 	if ($email && $email_git_blame) {