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    scripts/get_maintainer.pl: add default --git-fallback, remove default --git · e3e9d114
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    Adding commit signers when there is a listed MAINTAINER for a file
    can make the output list longer than necessary.
    
    Change the --git default from on to off.
    
    Add a new --git-fallback option (default on) used to add commit signers
    only when there is no MAINTAINER for a file.
    
    git history is used when --git-fallback is enabled and the pattern
    directory depth is not the same as the file directory depth.
    
    For instance:
    
    X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)
    M:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    M:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    M:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    M:	x86@kernel.org
    T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git
    
    
    S:	Maintained
    F:	Documentation/x86/
    F:	arch/x86/
    
    If using "./scripts/get_maintainer -f arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c", the pattern
    for "arch/x86/" does not match the directory depth of "arch/x86/lib"
    so the MAINTAINERS entries and git history is used to produce:
    
    $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --rolestats arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c
    Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> (maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE...)
    Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> (maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE...)
    "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> (maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE...,commit_signer:1/1=100%)
    x86@kernel.org (maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE...)
    Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com> (commit_signer:1/1=100%)
    linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
    
    Luca Barbieri is added because he signed the only commit to
    arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c during the last year and he meets the
    other default qualifications.
    	--git-min-percent (default:10)
    	--git-min-signatures (default:1)
    
    If current users of ./scripts/get_maintainers.pl have scripts
    that use --nogit that expect git history to be excluded, those
    scripts should be updated to include --nogit-fallback or a
    .get_maintainer.conf file should be created with --nogit-fallback.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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