Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:13:32 +1000 | From | Ryan Mallon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel |
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On 10/06/11 13:11, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: >> On 10/06/11 12:55, Paul Mundt wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: >>>> I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address accordingly. >>> Is this sort of churn really necessary? By all means, update your >>> MAINTAINERS entry accordingly, but the rest of it is really pretty >>> pointless. People are invariably going to consult MAINTAINERS one way or >>> another and get the updated value accordingly. For the rest of these you >>> are just as well off ripping out the email address completely. > I agree. > >> The MAINTAINERS entry for me only cover the arm ep93xx arch. Prior to >> this patch, if I do (for example) >> >> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c >> >> It gives my old Bluewater email. With this change it gives my gmail >> account. Not sure if that is because it extracts the email from the >> source or from the git commit? > It's the git commit. > > get_maintainer uses the name and address in the first seen > commit matching on the full name where possible. > > You can override this with --noremove-duplicates > > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noremove-duplicates -f drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c > Anton Vorontsov<cbouatmailru@gmail.com> (commit_signer:4/5=80%) > Ryan Mallon<ryan@bluewatersys.com> (commit_signer:3/5=60%) > Andrew Morton<akpm@linux-foundation.org> (commit_signer:1/5=20%) > Peter Huewe<peterhuewe@gmx.de> (commit_signer:1/5=20%) > Mike Rapoport<mike@compulab.co.il> (commit_signer:1/5=20%) > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list) Okay, what is the correct fix then so that people get the right email address for me?
~Ryan
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