Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Move entry for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:16:33 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2018-08-28 at 17:28 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Richard Fitzgerald > <rf@opensource.cirrus.com> wrote: > > Reviewed-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com> > > > > A maintainer for MAINTAINERS would help avoid these problems, which will > > tend to happen when changes to the file go through many trees. > > > > A year ago Linus committed 7683e9e52 ("Properly alphabetize > MAINTAINERS file") which adds scripts/parse-maintainers.pl. > > I guess it could just be run once in a while (e.g. before a kernel is > released, for instance).
And a few patches for parse-maintainers.pl were added after that.
The latest version also reorders and alphabetizes the subfields of each section to a preferred order.
So running that latest version would produce quite a large diff.
That large a diff should only occur once though.
$ perl ./scripts/parse-maintainers.pl --output MAINTAINERS $ git diff --stat MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS | 4014 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------ 1 file changed, 2007 insertions(+), 2007 deletions(-)
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$ git checkout 7683e9e52 -- scripts/parse-maintainers.pl $ perl ./scripts/parse-maintainers.pl < MAINTAINERS > MAINTAINERS.new $ mv MAINTAINERS.new MAINTAINERS $ git diff --stat MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS | 574 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------ 1 file changed, 287 insertions(+), 287 deletions(-)
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