Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:34:46PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On 10/20/2014 04:15 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >> What do you want to happen in this case?
> >> Won't this cause even more patches to fall to the floor?
> >>
> >> The benefit seems marginal, the risk high.
> >
> > I agree with Michael.
> >
> > Can we detect if get_maintainer.pl is invoked as a cccmd, and in this
> > case default to --no-git-fallback?  If it is invoked manually, I would
> > like to show the committers (I will then cherry pick the right ones).
> 
> I don't like context-sensitive defaults.  Too much magic.
> 
> What about this: if get_maintainer.pl comes up empty, it points you to
> --git-fallback.

This is exactly what it's doing now :)