Commit 6ab88e00 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds

MAINTAINERS: describe differences between F: and N: patterns

There is a difference in how scripts/get_maintainer.pl treats
F: and N: file pattern matches.

Describe those differences in the MAINTAINERS file.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent ef575f47
...@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ Descriptions of section entries: ...@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
N: Files and directories with regex patterns. N: Files and directories with regex patterns.
N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains the word tegra N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains the word tegra
One pattern per line. Multiple N: lines acceptable. One pattern per line. Multiple N: lines acceptable.
scripts/get_maintainer.pl has different behavior for files that
match F: pattern and matches of N: patterns. By default,
get_maintainer will not look at git log history when an F: pattern
match occurs. When an N: match occurs, git log history is used
to also notify the people that have git commit signatures.
X: Files and directories that are NOT maintained, same rules as F: X: Files and directories that are NOT maintained, same rules as F:
Files exclusions are tested before file matches. Files exclusions are tested before file matches.
Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance: Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance:
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