linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] get_maintainer: ignore "my" e-mail address

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Date:   Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:47:40 +0100
From:   Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@...sung.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] get_maintainer: ignore "my" e-mail address

It was <2021-11-25 czw 09:01>, when Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-11-25 at 17:14 +0100, Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
>> It was <2021-11-16 wto 15:14>, when Joe Perches wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 22:34 +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
>> > > Ignore one's own e-mail address given as a parameter to --ignore-me
>> > > or in the EMAIL environment variable.
>> > 
>> > Why is this useful?
>> > 
>> > git send-email already supports this.
>> > 
>> >        --suppress-cc=<category>
>> >            Specify an additional category of recipients to suppress
>> >            the auto-cc of:
>> > 
>> >            •   author will avoid including the patch author
>> > 
>> >            •   self will avoid including the sender
>> > 
>> >       --[no-]suppress-from
>> >            If this is set, do not add the From: address to the cc:
>> >            list. Default is the value of sendemail.suppressFrom
>> >            configuration value; if that is unspecified, default to
>> >            --no-suppress-from.
>> > 
>> 
>> Not really, git send-email does not support --suppress-to, and with
>> get_maintainers.pl coupled with git send-email as follows
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> [sendemail]
>>         tocmd = "`pwd`/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit --nogit-fallback --norolestats --nol --"
>>         cccmd = "`pwd`/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit --nogit-fallback --norolestats --nom --nor --nofixes --"
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> my address is added to To: if I am a maintainer of the patched files.
>> To avoid this the --ignore-me options can be added to tocmd.
>
> Rather than add complexity to the original get_maintainer script, is
> it possible to add a pipe like " | grep -v '<your_address>'" to tocmd ?
>
> I think it better to have these cmds use scripts ala:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/1473862411.32273.25.camel@perches.com/

A thin wrapper is never a bad thing (-;

> And if not a script and the complexity is warranted (though I think not)
> I'd rather have something like --suppress-addresss "<addr>" added to
> get_maintainer.pl to allow one or more addresses to be suppressed.

Indeed, that sound a lot more reasonable. I'll probably go with wrappers
for now.

Thanks.
-- 
Łukasz Stelmach
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

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