scripts/get_maintainer.pl: add .get_maintainer.conf default options file
Allow the use of a .get_maintainer.conf file to control the default
options applied when scripts/get_maintainer.pl is run.
.get_maintainer.conf can contain any valid command-line argument.
File contents are prepended to any additional command line arguments.
Multiple lines may be used, blank lines ignored, # is a comment.
Updated scripts/get_maintainer.pl version to 0.24
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index f66018d..b82ac95 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
use strict;
my $P = $0;
-my $V = '0.23';
+my $V = '0.24';
use Getopt::Long qw(:config no_auto_abbrev);
@@ -107,6 +107,30 @@
"blame_commit_pattern" => "^([0-9a-f]+):"
);
+if (-f "${lk_path}.get_maintainer.conf") {
+ my @conf_args;
+ open(my $conffile, '<', "${lk_path}.get_maintainer.conf")
+ or warn "$P: Can't open .get_maintainer.conf: $!\n";
+ while (<$conffile>) {
+ my $line = $_;
+
+ $line =~ s/\s*\n?$//g;
+ $line =~ s/^\s*//g;
+ $line =~ s/\s+/ /g;
+
+ next if ($line =~ m/^\s*#/);
+ next if ($line =~ m/^\s*$/);
+
+ my @words = split(" ", $line);
+ foreach my $word (@words) {
+ last if ($word =~ m/^#/);
+ push (@conf_args, $word);
+ }
+ }
+ close($conffile);
+ unshift(@ARGV, @conf_args) if @conf_args;
+}
+
if (!GetOptions(
'email!' => \$email,
'git!' => \$email_git,
@@ -573,6 +597,11 @@
--git-min-signatures, --git-max-maintainers, --git-min-percent, and
--git-blame
Use --hg-since not --git-since to control date selection
+ File ".get_maintainer.conf", if it exists in the linux kernel source root
+ directory, can change whatever get_maintainer defaults are desired.
+ Entries in this file can be any command line argument.
+ This file is prepended to any additional command line arguments.
+ Multiple lines and # comments are allowed.
EOT
}