Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Mo, 2014-10-20 at 20:38 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 10/20/2014 04:15 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > What do you want to happen in this case?
> > Won't this cause even more patches to fall to the floor?
> >
> > The benefit seems marginal, the risk high.
> 
> I agree with Michael.
> 
> Can we detect if get_maintainer.pl is invoked as a cccmd, and in this 
> case default to --no-git-fallback?  If it is invoked manually, I would 
> like to show the committers (I will then cherry pick the right ones).

How about making "get_maintainer.pl --git-fallback" actually do what it
says?  Right now git it *not* used as fallback, it goes to git log
unconditionally, even if there are hits in MAINTAINERS ...

Different behavior depending on whenever stdout is a tty or not should
be doable too.

cheers,
  Gerd