On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 00:01 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Any chance of getting that to be ~/.get_maintainer.conf rather than
> ./.get_maintainer.conf? I've just gotten bit like the 3rd or 4th time by
> "oh but you didn't create that file in *this* tree"
> (I usually have a linus git tree, a linux-next tree, and 3-4 -mm trees)

Sure.

Add a search path for the .conf file.

3 paths are added:

.             customized per-tree configurations
$HOME         user global configuration when per-tree configs don't exist
./scripts     lk defaults to override script
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>