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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] MAINTAINERS: update list of qcom drivers
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
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        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>,
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        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Date:   Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:28:02 -0800
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On Tue, 2018-12-18 at 00:20 +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:51 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > git history is used by default for the N: entries and that can
> > cause whitespace style commit authors to be cc'd on various changes
> > to matched files.
> 
> Is that by design?

yes.

> Or can we fix get_maintainer.pl to be less
> sensitive to whitespace authorship?

Use get_maintainer.pl's --nogit-fallback option