Re: get_maintainer.pl and git send-email: 5.1.2 The recipient address <linux-mtd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)> is not a valid

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Sep 14 2016 - 10:32:19 EST


On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 07:13 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> The scripts use --to-cmd to address the direct maintainers
> and cc-cmd to address indirect maintainers and mailing lists.

I neglected to mention I use a separate directory for each patch series
so there are no other files in the directory that could be scanned with
the wildcard use of '$(dirname $1)/*'

$ git format-patch -o <new_directory> ...

> $ cat ~/bin/to.sh
> #!/bin/bash
>
> opts="--nogit --nogit-fallback --norolestats --pattern-depth=1"
>
> if [[ $(basename $1) =~ ^0000- ]] ; then
>   ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nom $opts $(dirname $1)/*
> else
>   maint=$(./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nol $opts $1)
>   if [ "$maint" == "" ] ; then
> > echo "linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
>   else
> echo "$maint"
>   fi
> fi
>
> $ cat ~/bin/cc.sh
> #!/bin/bash
>
> opts="--nogit --nogit-fallback --norolestats"
>
> if [[ $(basename $1) =~ ^0000- ]] ; then
>   ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nom $opts $(dirname $1)/*
> else
>   ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl $opts $1
> fi
>