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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2014-01-24 03:54:22 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-01-24 04:36:56 +0400 |
| commit | 6ab88e00704bde2d7c7f57793e12ed4976275ecd (patch) | |
| tree | 4a6a803f0ec1875eb678baf3032dfe403be5dc15 /MAINTAINERS | |
| parent | ef575f47363413935e2251141e3477cf6e096500 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6ab88e00704bde2d7c7f57793e12ed4976275ecd.tar.xz | |
MAINTAINERS: describe differences between F: and N: patterns
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'MAINTAINERS')
| -rw-r--r-- | MAINTAINERS | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 4e76cdc8f796..f801c3bc76e7 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: |