[PATCH] scripts: warn about invalid MAINTAINERS patterns

Tom Saeger tom.saeger at oracle.com
Wed Nov 1 13:11:24 EDT 2017


On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 09:50:05AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> (add mercurial-devel and xen-devel to cc's)
> 
> On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 16:37 -0500, Tom Saeger wrote:
> > Add "--pattern-checks" option to get_maintainer.pl to warn about invalid
> > "F" and "X" patterns found in MAINTAINERS file(s).
> 
> Hey again Tom.
> 
> About mercurial/hg.
> 
> While as far as I know there hasn't been a mercurial tree
> for the linux kernel sources in many years, I believe the
> mercurial command to list files should be different.
> 
> > my %VCS_cmds_hg = (
> > @@ -167,6 +169,7 @@ my %VCS_cmds_hg = (
> >      "subject_pattern" => "^HgSubject: (.*)",
> >      "stat_pattern" => "^(\\d+)\t(\\d+)\t\$file\$",
> >      "file_exists_cmd" => "hg files \$file",
> > +    "list_files_cmd" => "hg files \$file",
> 
> I think this should be
> 
> 	"list_files_cmd" => "hg manifest -R \$file",

Ok - I'll add to v2.



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