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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2020-10-16 06:10:34 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-16 21:11:19 +0300
commitcdfe2d22047661c5e0ecf8f28e7e8843ee177aff (patch)
tree4161de2a126579136c40bc66232d11c63ebb1a1f /scripts
parentb7621ebf8a0870f8d822a09dbd040aa5c4909da5 (diff)
downloadlinux-cdfe2d22047661c5e0ecf8f28e7e8843ee177aff.tar.xz
get_maintainer: add test for file in VCS
It's somewhat common for me to ask get_maintainer to tell me who maintains a patch file rather than the files modified by the patch. Emit a warning if using get_maintainer.pl -f <patchfile> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f63229c051567041819f25e76f49d83c6e4c0f71.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/get_maintainer.pl3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 484d2fbf5921..5a36354a38cc 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -541,6 +541,9 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
die "$P: file '${file}' not found\n";
}
}
+ if ($from_filename && (vcs_exists() && !vcs_file_exists($file))) {
+ warn "$P: file '$file' not found in version control $!\n";
+ }
if ($from_filename || ($file ne "&STDIN" && vcs_file_exists($file))) {
$file =~ s/^\Q${cur_path}\E//; #strip any absolute path
$file =~ s/^\Q${lk_path}\E//; #or the path to the lk tree