[PATCH V4 1/2] get_maintainer: allow keywords to match filenames

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Tue Feb 12 13:22:22 EST 2013


On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 11:17 -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 02/11/2013 11:17 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > If the -f pattern is a single file,
> > get_maintainer reads that file content and then
> > matches any K: patterns.
> > 
> > When the -f pattern is a directory, it doesn't.
> 
> Yes, I guess that's true; I had convinced myself that "file" wasn't
> accurate since "-f directory/" didn't scan the files within that
> directory tree, but as you say "-f file" does scan the file content.
> 
> BTW, given I'm adding "filename" to the list, I intend to change the
> existing "file" to "file content" to be clear. Are you OK with that?

Sure.




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