[PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Look for .get_maintainer.conf in lk,then $HOME then scripts

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 00:01 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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 lying around).

Sure.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index b228198..ea54561 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -107,10 +107,12 @@ my %VCS_cmds_hg = (
     "blame_commit_pattern" => "^([0-9a-f]+):"
 );
 
-if (-f "${lk_path}.get_maintainer.conf") {
+my $conf = which_conf(".get_maintainer.conf");
+if (-f $conf) {
     my @conf_args;
-    open(my $conffile, '<', "${lk_path}.get_maintainer.conf")
-	or warn "$P: Can't open .get_maintainer.conf: $!\n";
+    open(my $conffile, '<', "$conf")
+	or warn "$P: Can't find a readable .get_maintainer.conf file $!\n";
+
     while (<$conffile>) {
 	my $line = $_;
 
@@ -952,6 +954,18 @@ sub which {
     return "";
 }
 
+sub which_conf {
+    my ($conf) = @_;
+
+    foreach my $path (split(/:/, ".:$ENV{HOME}:.scripts")) {
+	if (-e "$path/$conf") {
+	    return "$path/$conf";
+	}
+    }
+
+    return "";
+}
+
 sub mailmap {
     my (@lines) = @_;
     my %hash;


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