scripts/get_maintainer.pl: use .get_maintainer.conf from . then $HOME then scripts
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:53 +0000 (14:22 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:52:17 +0000 (16:52 -0700)
commitbcde44ed7d2a58733efdf04b5392c027d1348bac
tree09ce6f1b82f592364ec86fa380342f39ccefe981
parente3e9d11479737692f797bad1762f71468d577a93
scripts/get_maintainer.pl: use .get_maintainer.conf from . then $HOME then scripts

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 00:01 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Any chance of getting that to be ~/.get_maintainer.conf rather than
> ./.get_maintainer.conf? I've just gotten bit like the 3rd or 4th time by
> "oh but you didn't create that file in *this* tree"
> (I usually have a linus git tree, a linux-next tree, and 3-4 -mm trees)

Sure.

Add a search path for the .conf file.

3 paths are added:

.             customized per-tree configurations
$HOME         user global configuration when per-tree configs don't exist
./scripts     lk defaults to override script

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/get_maintainer.pl