get_maintainers.pl is rude, was Re: [PATCH 05/19] USB: inode.c: move assignment out of if () block

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Apr 30 2015 - 08:54:12 EST


On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 02:40:04PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl is bringing up your name for this file as you
> have modified it in the past:

I've probably modified a large part of files in the kernel in the past.

And I'm annoyed about this stupid behavior in get_maintainers.pl.

Joe, can you please fix your bloody script to not report me for every
goddamnt file I touched once? Authorship of changes to a file is
a completely wrong metric. I can see the point to guess it by
non-maintainer signoffs, but authorship is plain wrong and highly
annoying.

If you're unwilling to fix this please at least add a get_maintainers.ignore
file and add me as the first entry. Thanks!
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