Re: whomto.pl -- finding out whom to send patches to

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Sat May 31 2008 - 06:04:15 EST


On 5/30/08, Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Vegard Nossum wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've written this perl script that takes a patch as input and prints the
> > authors/committers of the affected lines, using git-blame as the back end.

...

> > (Improvements are of course also welcome.)
> >
>
> Minor fix: do not git-blame /dev/null in patches that add new files.
>
> -Andrea
>
> diff -urpN linux/whomto.orig.pl linux/whomto.pl
> --- linux/whomto.orig.pl 2008-05-30 09:43:08.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux/whomto.pl 2008-05-30 09:49:26.000000000 +0200
> @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ sub parse_patch {
>
> for (@p) {
> if (m/^--- .*?\/([^\s~]*)/) {
> + next if ($1 eq 'dev/null');
> $file = $files{$1} = {
> chunks => [],
> };
>

I missed that, thanks :-)

(Other diff programs may also use other paths for new files, so I'm
also adding an -f check.)


Vegard

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