scripts/get_maintainer.pl: use .get_maintainer.conf from . then $HOME…

… then scripts

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 00:01 -0400, [email protected] 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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

scripts/get_maintainer.pl

@@ -110,10 +110,12 @@
     "blame_commit_pattern" => "^([0-9a-f]+):"
 );
 
-if (-f "${lk_path}.get_maintainer.conf") {
+my $conf = which_conf(".get_maintainer.conf");
+if (-f $conf) {
     my @conf_args;
-    open(my $conffile, '<', "${lk_path}.get_maintainer.conf")
-	or warn "$P: Can't open .get_maintainer.conf: $!\n";
+    open(my $conffile, '<', "$conf")
+	or warn "$P: Can't find a readable .get_maintainer.conf file $!\n";
+
     while (<$conffile>) {
 	my $line = $_;
 
@@ -961,6 +963,18 @@ sub which {
     return "";
 }
 
+sub which_conf {
+    my ($conf) = @_;
+
+    foreach my $path (split(/:/, ".:$ENV{HOME}:.scripts")) {
+	if (-e "$path/$conf") {
+	    return "$path/$conf";
+	}
+    }
+
+    return "";
+}
+
 sub mailmap {
     my (@lines) = @_;
     my %hash;