From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755973AbZLIOW6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:22:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755074AbZLIOW5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:22:57 -0500 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:1035 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753828AbZLIOW4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:22:56 -0500 Subject: Re: pass upstream rev to scripts/get_maintainer.pl From: Joe Perches To: Mark Brown Cc: Uwe Kleine-K?nig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20091209141357.GG9018@sirena.org.uk> References: <20091209090639.GA23236@pengutronix.de> <1260367667.27319.11.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <20091209141357.GG9018@sirena.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:23:02 -0800 Message-ID: <1260368582.27319.32.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:13 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:07:47AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 10:06 +0100, Uwe Kleine-K??nig wrote: > > > I often face the "problem" that get_maintainer.pl yields my name, too, > > > as the commits I want to send are included in HEAD. > > Why is this a problem? > With the limit on the number of people returned it's possible that > authors of the patch series being posted (there may be more than one) > will push out folks that it'd be good to include. You could use --git-max-maintainers=