diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 407f1203c7..997d2b15ed 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ patches and related discussions.
               patches to the given subsystem. This is either an in-tree file,
               or a URI. See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
               for details.
+(T <address>) *SCM* tree type and location.
+              Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit
+
 
 Applications
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