Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Fix F: patterns that don't match anything

[Eric Blake]

On 08/10/2018 06:55 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Commit ba51ef25571 moved hw/dma/sun4m_iommu.c to
> hw/sparc/sun4m_iommu.c without updating MAINTAINERS.
>
> Commit f5980f757c0 deleted include/hw/sparc/sun4m.h without updating
> MAINTAINERS.
>
> Commit 0bcc8e5bd8d fat-fingered tests/check-block-qdict.c.
>
> Commit 33e9e9bd62d fat-fingered include/qemu/job.h.
>
> Commit eb815e248f5 moved qapi-schema.json to qapi/ without updating
> MAINTAINERS.
>
> Commit 2e3c8f8dbdd converted docs/devel/migration.txt to
> docs/devel/migration.rst without updating MAINTAINERS.
>
> Offenders tracked down with the following shell loop:
>
>      shopt -s nullglob
>      for i in `sed -n 's/^F: //p' <MAINTAINERS `
>      do
>          glob="`echo $i`"
>         if [ "$glob" = "$i" ]
>         then [ ! -e $i ]
>         else [ -z "$glob" ]
>         fi && echo "$i"
>      done

Clever. The bulk of the time spent on this patch was chasing down the 
faulty commits for the nice archaeology given above.

> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 10 ++++------
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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