On 08/14/2007 08:28 PM, Joe Perches wrote:

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:03 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:

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"git info --maintainer drivers/ide/ide-cd.c" or some such would say "Alan 
Cox <alan@...>".

Perhaps maintainer(s), approver(s), listener(s)?

I think something like this should be a git-goal.
What do the git-wranglers think?

I agree. If this thing has source management, let's use it.

Until a time in the future when a system like that exists,
I suggest keeping MAINTAINERS up-to-date with

F:	pattern

It'll be useful as git-set-maintainer seeds at least.

Yes. Seeing as how it's already been useful in updating the information it 
would be a shame to throw what you already did away. Don't underestimate how 
fast git-wranglers can implement stuff if they agree though... :-)

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sticking  headers on every source file isn't nice anyway --
it's meta-information and the SCM can maintain it.

It's like looking at $CVS$ keywords.  Unsightly.

Again agree.

Rene.