From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:25:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl
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Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:

> Yes please.

Huh?

> Rene Herman had an idea about using some git
> metadata that might be useful.  The completely
> external data approach suggested by Al Viro 
> might be OK too in that it wouldn't tie listeners
> to git requiring more content in git metadata.

The reason I found Linus's suggestion desirable is because it
fundamentally does not require git to track any metadata.  If
the commits are in git, then his script would let you gather the
data, but otherwise you should be able to do the same by
grepping patches.  Obviously you would need to filter by paths,
looking at the diffstat, but the approach does _not_ tie users
to git.