Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email addressacross the kernel

[Jesper Juhl]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Ryan Mallon wrote:

> On 10/06/11 13:24, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> If I strip my email address, but leave my name and copyright in the files the
> patch will have the same amount of churn right?
> 
This time around, yes. But the next time you change email you then don't 
have to update those files again, just CREDITS/MAINTAINERS etc.

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