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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2020-10-15 20:10:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -0700 |
| commit | cdfe2d22047661c5e0ecf8f28e7e8843ee177aff (patch) | |
| tree | 4161de2a126579136c40bc66232d11c63ebb1a1f /scripts/get_maintainer.pl | |
| parent | b7621ebf8a0870f8d822a09dbd040aa5c4909da5 (diff) | |
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get_maintainer: add test for file in VCS
It's somewhat common for me to ask get_maintainer to tell me who maintains
a patch file rather than the files modified by the patch.
Emit a warning if using get_maintainer.pl -f <patchfile>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f63229c051567041819f25e76f49d83c6e4c0f71.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl index 484d2fbf5921..5a36354a38cc 100755 --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl @@ -541,6 +541,9 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) { die "$P: file '${file}' not found\n"; } } + if ($from_filename && (vcs_exists() && !vcs_file_exists($file))) { + warn "$P: file '$file' not found in version control $!\n"; + } if ($from_filename || ($file ne "&STDIN" && vcs_file_exists($file))) { $file =~ s/^\Q${cur_path}\E//; #strip any absolute path $file =~ s/^\Q${lk_path}\E//; #or the path to the lk tree |