Re: [bug] get_maintainer.pl incomplete output

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:51:18 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I haven't looked closely at scripts/get_maintainer.pl, but I recently 
> wrote a patch touching mm/vmpressure.c and it doesn't list the file's 
> author, Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@xxxxxxxxxx>.
> 
> Even when I do scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/vmpressure.c, his entry is 
> missing and git blame attributs >90% of the lines to his authorship.
> 
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/vmpressure.c 
> Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:6/7=86%)
> Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> (commit_signer:5/7=71%)
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:4/7=57%)
> Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:3/7=43%)
> "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:1/7=14%)
> linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx (open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT)
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)

get_maintainer should, by default, answer the question "who should I
email about this file".  It clearly isn't doing this, and that's a
pretty big fail.

I've learned not to trust it, so when I use it I always have to check
its homework with "git log | grep Author" :(

Joe, pretty please?
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