On Aug 18 2023 10:33, Neil Armstrong wrote: > My opinion is that it would be a better idea to add a new output mode > to scripts/get_maintainer.pl than adding another script on top of it. Sorry, I don't follow. The problem that this script is solving is getting the output of `get_maintainer.pl` neatly into a patch according to this scheme: 1. Generate patches using `git format-patch` 2. Run `add-maintainer.py` on the above patches 3. `git send-email` the patches. Not sure how adding a new output mode to `get_maintainer.pl` fits in this problem space. Unless you mean to add a switch to it so that it automatically edits the patch in-place (like `add-maintainer.py` does) and adds all the addresses directly to the patch - in which case, that would be feature creep. > Or document somewhere how to use get_maintainer.pl with git-format-patch > without any additional scripts. IMHO, `Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst` should be updated with at least one or two options addressing how to get from the aforementioned step #1 -> step #3 addressing the problem that is being solved by step #2. In this vacuum, every developer and maintainer appears to have their own solution that works for them. Thank you. Guru Das.
