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

> 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.
> 
> (The purpose of this is of course to find out whom to send patches to.)
> 
> There are some caveats:
> 
> - If I've understood correctly, git-blame incremental output doesn't split
>   commits when a newer one is found, so we currently possibly take into
>   account more than just the last patch to touch a line. This might not be
>   a disadvantage, however...
> 
> - The patch must apply to the current working tree. I suppose there is
>   some way to use the index information in the patch to determine what to
>   run git-blame against, but this is currently beyond my git knowledge.
> 
> - It's a bit slow, particularly for large files. But doing the same thing
>   by hand would be slower, so I suppose it's an overall improvement.
> 
> Running this on a random -mm patch, for example
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.26-rc2/2.6.26-rc2-mm1/broken-out/acpi-fix-fadt-parsing.patch
> gives the following output:
> 
>   $ perl whomto2.pl acpi-fix-fadt-parsing.patch
>   Running git-blame on drivers/acpi/tables/tbfadt.c...
> 
>   To: (Committers)
>       48 Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
>   Cc: (Authors)
>       44 Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
>        2 Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
>        2 Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> 
> Maybe this tool can be useful? :-)
> 
> (Improvements are of course also welcome.)