@@ -652,6 +652,15 @@ sub get_maintainers {
}
if ($email) {
+ if (! $interactive) {
+ $email_git_fallback = 0 if @email_to > 0 || @list_to > 0 || $email_git || $email_git_blame;
+ if ($email_git_fallback) {
+ print STDERR "get_maintainer.pl: No maintainers found, printing recent contributors.\n";
+ print STDERR "get_maintainer.pl: Do not blindly cc: them on patches! Use common sense.\n";
+ print STDERR "\n";
+ }
+ }
+
foreach my $file (@files) {
if ($email_git || ($email_git_fallback &&
!$exact_pattern_match_hash{$file})) {
The list emitted by --git-fallback often leads inexperienced contributors to add pointless CCs. While not discouraging usage of --git-fallback, we want to: 1) disable the fallback if only some files lack a maintainer $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f util/cutils.c hw/ide/core.c Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> (odd fixer:IDE) Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> (odd fixer:IDE) This behavior is taken even if --git-fallback is specified. 2) warn the contributors about what we're doing, asking them to use their common sense: $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f util/cutils.c get_maintainer.pl: No maintainers found, printing recent contributors. get_maintainer.pl: Do not blindly cc: them on patches! Use common sense. Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> (commit_signer:1/2=50%) ... $ Explicitly disabling the fallback will not result in the warning message: $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f util/cutils.c --no-git-fallback $ echo $? 0 (Returning 1 would break usage of scripts/get_maintainer.pl as a cccmd for git-send-email). Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> --- scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)