Julia Lawall suggested that get_maintainers.pl should have the
ability to include signatories of commits that are modified by
a particular patch.
Vegard Nossum did something similar once.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/29/449
The modified script looks the commits for all lines in the
patch, and includes the "-by:" signatories for those commits.
It uses the same git-min-percent, git-max-maintainers, and
git-min-signatures options. git-since is ignored.
It can be used independently from the --git default, so
./scripts/get_maintainers.pl --nogit --git-blame <patch>
or
./scripts/get_maintainers.pl --nogit --git-blame -f <file>
is acceptable.
If used with -f <file>, all lines/commits for the file are
checked.
--git-blame can be slow if used with -f <file>
--git-blame does not work with -f <directory>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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