Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:24:00 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:13 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: > 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? > > get_maintainer uses the name and address in the first seen > > commit matching on the full name where possible. > Okay, what is the correct fix then so that people get the right email > address for me?
I believe updating the MAINTAINERS file and authoring and committing patches that take your email address out of files works well.
Some think that it's better to keep current email addresses in the files. I think it has to do with European data retention laws.
Not sure if that applies to you.
There've been threads about changing email addresses in files before like:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/10/89
cheers, Joe
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