Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Add the --for-tree argument

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2022-10-13 at 19:56 -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:39:53 PDT (-0700), joe@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Thu, 2022-10-13 at 14:57 -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> > > I recently wanted to look up the maintainers for each tree path via a
> > > script, and I couldn't find a better way to do that than poking
> > > get_maintainer.pl to add a new argument.  This lets folks run something
> > > like
> > > 
> > >     $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --for-tree git://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux.git
> > >     Anup Patel <anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR RISC-V (KVM/riscv))
> > >     kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (maintainer:KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR RISC-V (KVM/riscv))
> > >     kvm-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (maintainer:KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR RISC-V (KVM/riscv))
> > >     linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (maintainer:KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR RISC-V (KVM/riscv))
> > > 
> > > to find out who owns a tree.
> > 
> > I'm not sure this is useful.
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> Generally sound like you 
> don't want this one so I'm going to punt on fixing these for now, I 
> don't care all that much about having this merged.
> 
> LMK if you want a v2, though.

I think it's not necessary.

Thanks,  Joe