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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/get_maintainer.pl11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 139e0fff8e31..d29a8d75cb22 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -420,6 +420,14 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
open(my $patch, "< $file")
or die "$P: Can't open $file: $!\n";
+
+ # We can check arbitrary information before the patch
+ # like the commit message, mail headers, etc...
+ # This allows us to match arbitrary keywords against any part
+ # of a git format-patch generated file (subject tags, etc...)
+
+ my $patch_prefix = ""; #Parsing the intro
+
while (<$patch>) {
my $patch_line = $_;
if (m/^\+\+\+\s+(\S+)/) {
@@ -428,13 +436,14 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
$filename =~ s@\n@@;
$lastfile = $filename;
push(@files, $filename);
+ $patch_prefix = "^[+-].*"; #Now parsing the actual patch
} elsif (m/^\@\@ -(\d+),(\d+)/) {
if ($email_git_blame) {
push(@range, "$lastfile:$1:$2");
}
} elsif ($keywords) {
foreach my $line (keys %keyword_hash) {
- if ($patch_line =~ m/^[+-].*$keyword_hash{$line}/x) {
+ if ($patch_line =~ m/${patch_prefix}$keyword_hash{$line}/x) {
push(@keyword_tvi, $line);
}
}