Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Find maintainers for removed files

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 20:27 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> For removed files, get_maintainer.pl doesn't find any maintainers (besides
> the default linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org), as it only looks at the "+++"
> lines, which are "/dev/null" for removals.
> Fix this by extending the parsing to the "---" lines.
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
[]
> @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
>  
>  	while (<$patch>) {
>  	    my $patch_line = $_;
> -	    if (m/^\+\+\+\s+(\S+)/) {
> +	    if (m/^\+\+\+\s+(\S+)/ or m/^---\s+(\S+)/) {
>  		my $filename = $1;
>  		$filename =~ s@^[^/]*/@@;
>  		$filename =~ s@\n@@;

OK, but this would now match any keyword in a deleted filename.