On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > > It would be much easier to put in the "kernel/somesubsys" directory a > > Maintainers file which has: > > It's ofcourse possible, but note that if we want this stuff to be minimally > manual, moving files around (and deleting them) then requires editing these > actual in-tree files via a tool. > > With the properties deleting files just requires deleting any file-specific > properties alongside which is trivial since those are linked from the file. > > Moving stuff works by building a list of all properties that are set on the > source starting at the source and destination's highest shared parent > directory and then reconstructing this list at the destination, striking > properties off the list that are already set at the destination. > > Adding properties, alongside added files or after the fact, could be done > via standard patch submissals via the kind of "meta-diff" that already > exists for "git move". > > I really believe this stuff should be meta-data -- and these properties as > outlined work well it seems. Please remember that not everybody uses git. The MAINTAINERS data should be available in the kernel source itself. (Maybe your suggestion is consistent with this -- I simply wanted to raise the point.) Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
