Commit cdfe2d22 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds

get_maintainer: add test for file in VCS

It's somewhat common for me to ask get_maintainer to tell me who maintains
a patch file rather than the files modified by the patch.

Emit a warning if using get_maintainer.pl -f <patchfile>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f63229c051567041819f25e76f49d83c6e4c0f71.camel@perches.comSigned-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b7621ebf
...@@ -541,6 +541,9 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) { ...@@ -541,6 +541,9 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
die "$P: file '${file}' not found\n"; die "$P: file '${file}' not found\n";
} }
} }
if ($from_filename && (vcs_exists() && !vcs_file_exists($file))) {
warn "$P: file '$file' not found in version control $!\n";
}
if ($from_filename || ($file ne "&STDIN" && vcs_file_exists($file))) { if ($from_filename || ($file ne "&STDIN" && vcs_file_exists($file))) {
$file =~ s/^\Q${cur_path}\E//; #strip any absolute path $file =~ s/^\Q${cur_path}\E//; #strip any absolute path
$file =~ s/^\Q${lk_path}\E//; #or the path to the lk tree $file =~ s/^\Q${lk_path}\E//; #or the path to the lk tree
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