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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:47:37 +0200
From: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove non-MAINTAINERS email address references for
 Lennert Buytenhek.
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:27:16 +0200
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 01:20:02PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > > This gets rid of all (obsolete as well as still valid) email addresses
> > > for Lennert Buytenhek across the tree -- MAINTAINERS should be used for
> > > obtaining a valid email address.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
> > 
> > Lennert, this is silly.
> > 
> > That email address acts as part of the identification of who you
> > are, and is part of the copyright.
> 
> The problem is that half of them are out of date.  I at first sent a
> patch to change them all over to buytenh@wantstofly.org, but then got:
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129858453409012&w=2
> 
> which seemed sensible. :-/

What about the .mailmap file in the kernel source tree? ( man
git-shortlog )

That is honoured at least by git and scripts/get_maintainers.pl ...

You'll want to add lines of the form:
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Lennert Buytenhek <old address>

I guess...

Regards,
Flo
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