On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:51:18 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I haven't looked closely at scripts/get_maintainer.pl, but I recently > wrote a patch touching mm/vmpressure.c and it doesn't list the file's > author, Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@xxxxxxxxxx>. > > Even when I do scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/vmpressure.c, his entry is > missing and git blame attributs >90% of the lines to his authorship. > > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/vmpressure.c > Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:6/7=86%) > Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> (commit_signer:5/7=71%) > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:4/7=57%) > Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:3/7=43%) > "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:1/7=14%) > linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx (open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT) > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list) get_maintainer should, by default, answer the question "who should I email about this file". It clearly isn't doing this, and that's a pretty big fail. I've learned not to trust it, so when I use it I always have to check its homework with "git log | grep Author" :( Joe, pretty please? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>