On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 09:58 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > The easiest to achieve it is to run with --no-git-fallback and CC entire > output. However it does not mean submitter must run with > --no-git-fallback. It is only for this generic rule - CC entire output > of get_maintainers.pl. > > If you add such rule "CC entire output of get_maintainers.pl" and do not > mention no-git-fallback, some folks will think they need to CC all these > people who made one commit to your file... false. git-fallback is _not_ used when there is a listed maintainer for a specific file. If there is a use of git-fallback, it's because there is _no_ specified maintainer for a specific file. --git-fallback => use git when no exact MAINTAINERS pattern (default: 1) i.e.: It's not "your file" if you don't maintain it.
