Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl

[Kyle Moffett]

On Aug 15, 2007, at 09:39:44, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 08/15/2007 03:33 PM, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> [ git info --maintainer ]
>
> > I'd really _love_ a tool that does all that what you've proposed  
> > above!  But why does it have to be "git-info" or anything in the  
> > git(7) suite for that matter? This sounds like a job for a  
> > different specialised tool,  long with ".metatags" kind of files  
> > dispersed in the source tree.
>
> To automatically move (and delete) the meta-data alongside the  
> files themselves is a reason.
>
> More generally -- shouldn't it? This is about source management  
> (well, maybe more about project management, but...) and the source  
> code management tool looks to be the right place for that. The  
> different parts of git are somewhat/fairly stand-alone as is, no?

If you were going to do that I'd just suggest making git aware of the  
"user.*" extended attributes and having it save those into the git  
repo along with the permission data.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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