From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 03:10:34 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: get_maintainer: add test for file in VCS
X-Git-Tag: v5.10-rc1~106^2~56
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cdfe2d22047661c5e0ecf8f28e7e8843ee177aff;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

get_maintainer: add test for file in VCS

It's somewhat common for me to ask get_maintainer to tell me who maintains
a patch file rather than the files modified by the patch.

Emit a warning if using get_maintainer.pl -f <patchfile>

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f63229c051567041819f25e76f49d83c6e4c0f71.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 484d2fbf5921d..5a36354a38cc3 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -541,6 +541,9 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
 	    die "$P: file '${file}' not found\n";
 	}
     }
+    if ($from_filename && (vcs_exists() && !vcs_file_exists($file))) {
+	warn "$P: file '$file' not found in version control $!\n";
+    }
     if ($from_filename || ($file ne "&STDIN" && vcs_file_exists($file))) {
 	$file =~ s/^\Q${cur_path}\E//;	#strip any absolute path
 	$file =~ s/^\Q${lk_path}\E//;	#or the path to the lk tree