Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Sort entries using parse-maintainers.pl

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Dec 04 2021 - 13:21:57 EST


On Sat, 2021-12-04 at 18:52 +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> The MAINTAINERS file got slightly out of order again, making it
> difficult to put new entries at the right (alphabetical) position.
>
> Run parse-maintainers.pl to restore the alphabetical order.
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> Checkpatch warns about a few unordered "F:" lines within sections, but I
> left those alone because I wanted this patch to be as automated as possible.

The --order option does that.

$ ./scripts/parse-maintainers.pl --order --output MAINTAINERS