Commit cdfe2d22 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f63229c051567041819f25e76f49d83c6e4c0f71.camel@perches.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b7621ebf

scripts/get_maintainer.pl

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@@ -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