From 6343f6b71f83af8ebfc6f9740d1d74f2db88e6b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:10:37 -0700
Subject: get_maintainer: exclude MAINTAINERS file(s) from --git-fallback

MAINTAINERS files generally have no specific maintainer but are updated by
individuals for subsystems all over the source tree.

Exclude MAINTAINERS file(s) from --git-fallback searches so the unlucky
individuals that update the files the most are not shown by default.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2bacb0a9c06fbb6d56a43bf930e808c74243c908.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl')

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 5a36354a38cc..2075db0c08b8 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -957,8 +957,10 @@ sub get_maintainers {
 
     foreach my $file (@files) {
 	if ($email &&
-	    ($email_git || ($email_git_fallback &&
-			    !$exact_pattern_match_hash{$file}))) {
+	    ($email_git ||
+	     ($email_git_fallback &&
+	      $file !~ /MAINTAINERS$/ &&
+	      !$exact_pattern_match_hash{$file}))) {
 	    vcs_file_signoffs($file);
 	}
 	if ($email && $email_git_blame) {
-- 
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