linux-kernel - Re: get_maintainer.pl and change of email

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Message-ID: <20180801185317.ndyxtx4zwdkes2dh@angband.pl>
Date:   Wed, 1 Aug 2018 20:53:17 +0200
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     joe@...ches.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: get_maintainer.pl and change of email

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 11:36:23AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> It seems that get_maintainer.pl will make recommendations based on
> commit history to a file, but over time, people change emails that
> they commit from, then get_maintainer.pl recommends the possibly now
> invalid email address.
> 
> I feel like we should have a look up table / file like MAINTAINERS
> that tracks previous and new email addresses, which get_maintainer.pl
> would parse, that way we have a record of movement between committer
> email addresses allowing get_maintainer.pl to make more accurate
> recommendations.  Thoughts?

.mailmap

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