From 6ab88e00704bde2d7c7f57793e12ed4976275ecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:54:22 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: describe differences between F: and N: patterns MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit There is a difference in how scripts/get_maintainer.pl treats F: and N: file pattern matches. Describe those differences in the MAINTAINERS file. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org> Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- MAINTAINERS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 4e76cdc8f7968..f801c3bc76e75 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ Descriptions of section entries: N: Files and directories with regex patterns. N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains the word tegra One pattern per line. Multiple N: lines acceptable. + scripts/get_maintainer.pl has different behavior for files that + match F: pattern and matches of N: patterns. By default, + get_maintainer will not look at git log history when an F: pattern + match occurs. When an N: match occurs, git log history is used + to also notify the people that have git commit signatures. X: Files and directories that are NOT maintained, same rules as F: Files exclusions are tested before file matches. Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance: -- GitLab