From cdfe2d22047661c5e0ecf8f28e7e8843ee177aff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:10:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 484d2fbf5921d..5a36354a38cc3 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
--
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