This series aims to add "D:" which behaves exactly the same as "K:" but works only on patch files. The goal of this is to reduce noise when folks use get_maintainer on tree files as opposed to patches. This use case should be steered away from [1] but "D:" should help maintainers reduce noise in their inboxes regardless, especially when matching omnipresent keywords like [2]. In the event of [2] Kees would be to/cc'd from folks running get_maintainer on _any_ file containing "__counted_by". The number of these files is rising and I fear for his inbox as his goal, as I understand it, is to simply monitor the introduction of new __counted_by annotations to ensure accurate semantics. See [3/3] for an illustrative example. This series also includes a formatting pass over get_maintainer because I personally found it difficult to parse with the human eye. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230726151515.1650519-1-kuba@xxxxxxxxxx/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230925172037.work.853-kees@xxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Justin Stitt (3): MAINTAINERS: add documentation for D: get_maintainer: run perltidy get_maintainer: add patch-only pattern matching type MAINTAINERS | 3 + scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 3334 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 2 files changed, 1718 insertions(+), 1619 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 6465e260f48790807eef06b583b38ca9789b6072 change-id: 20230926-get_maintainer_add_d-07424a814e72 Best regards, -- Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
