On 11/22/20 10:22 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2020-11-22 at 08:33 -0800, Tom Rix wrote: >> On 11/21/20 9:10 AM, Joe Perches wrote: >>> On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 08:50 -0800, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>> A difficult part of automating commits is composing the subsystem >>>> preamble in the commit log. For the ongoing effort of a fixer producing >>>> one or two fixes a release the use of 'treewide:' does not seem appropriate. >>>> >>>> It would be better if the normal prefix was used. Unfortunately normal is >>>> not consistent across the tree. >>>> >>>> So I am looking for comments for adding a new tag to the MAINTAINERS file >>>> >>>> D: Commit subsystem prefix >>>> >>>> ex/ for FPGA DFL DRIVERS >>>> >>>> D: fpga: dfl: >>> I'm all for it. Good luck with the effort. It's not completely trivial. >>> >>> From a decade ago: >>> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1289919077.28741.50.camel@Joe-Laptop/ >>> >>> (and that thread started with extra semicolon patches too) >> Reading the history, how about this. >> >> get_maintainer.pl outputs a single prefix, if multiple files have the >> same prefix it works, if they don't its an error. >> >> Another script 'commit_one_file.sh' does the call to get_mainainter.pl >> to get the prefix and be called by run-clang-tools.py to get the fixer >> specific message. > It's not whether the script used is get_maintainer or any other script, > the question is really if the MAINTAINERS file is the appropriate place > to store per-subsystem patch specific prefixes. > > It is. > > Then the question should be how are the forms described and what is the > inheritance priority. My preference would be to have a default of > inherit the parent base and add basename(subsystem dirname). > > Commit history seems to have standardized on using colons as the separator > between the commit prefix and the subject. > > A good mechanism to explore how various subsystems have uses prefixes in > the past might be something like: > > $ git log --no-merges --pretty='%s' -<commit_count> <subsystem_path> | \ > perl -n -e 'print substr($_, 0, rindex($_, ":") + 1) . "\n";' | \ > sort | uniq -c | sort -rn Thanks, I have shamelessly stolen this line and limited the commits to the maintainer. I will post something once the generation of the prefixes is done. Tom
