--pattern-depth is used to control how many levels of directory traversal
should be performed to find maintainers. default is 0 (all directory levels).
For instance:
MAINTAINERS currently has multiple M: and F: entries that match
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c
IPVS
M: Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org>
M: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
M: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
[...]
F: net/netfilter/ipvs/
NETFILTER/IPTABLES/IPCHAINS
[...]
M: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
[...]
F: net/netfilter/
NETWORKING [GENERAL]
M: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
[...]
F: net/
THE REST
M: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[...]
F: */
Using this command will return all of those maintainers:
(except Linus unless --git-chief-maintainers is specified)
$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit -nol \
-f net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c
Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org>
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adding --pattern-depth=1 will match at the deepest level
$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit -nol --pattern-depth=1 \
-f net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c
Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org>
Adding --pattern-depth=2 will match at the deepest level and 1 higher
$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit -nol --pattern-depth=2 \
-f net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c
Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org>
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
and so on.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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