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

["Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>]

On 5/30/08, Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> 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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