Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove quotes around names that have email addresses

From: Bence Csókás

Date: Fri Aug 28 2026 - 08:02:49 EST


Hi,

On 4/26/26 11:13, Hans Schou wrote:
From: Hans Schou <hans@xxxxxxxx>

Several entries in MAINTAINERS use quotes around the name when an
email address is present:

M: "Name" <mail>

while most entries use the unquoted form:

M: Name <mail>

This is a purely mechanical cleanup to make the file consistent and
easier to read and process.

No functional change.

Change applied with the sed command:
sed -i '/".*</ s/"//g' MAINTAINERS

Signed-off-by: Hans Schou <hans.schou@xxxxxxxxx>
This is called RFC 822 quoted-string. Display names which have non-alphanumeric characters such as dots, commas, brackets, double quotes, will be subjected to this encoding to make them safe to use by Git and other email tooling. I suggest reading Git source code, particularly `sub sanitize_address` inside git-send-email.perl.

Bence