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dim: Check for maintainer's ack when merging on behalf of another tree

Maxime Ripard requested to merge mripard/maintainer-tools:dim-acked-by-maintainer into master

We've recently had multiple occurences of people taking patches through the drm-misc tree for parts of the kernel that aren't under drm-misc maintenance, and without the maintainers Ack.

While merging patches on behalf of someone else is totally something we can do, we need to tell the maintainer and make sure he's fine with that.

This patch adds some logic to detect if the the range of commits belong indeed to the branch we are currently working on, and if not check for the maintainer's Acked-by or Signed-off-by.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard mripard@kernel.org

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