Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address acrossthe kernel

[Ryan Mallon]

On 10/06/11 13:24, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:13 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> > On 10/06/11 13:11, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> > > > On 10/06/11 12:55, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> > > > > > I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address accordingly.
> > > > > Is this sort of churn really necessary?
> > > get_maintainer uses the name and address in the first seen
> > > commit matching on the full name where possible.
> > Okay, what is the correct fix then so that people get the right email
> > address for me?
> I believe updating the MAINTAINERS file and
> authoring and committing patches that take
> your email address out of files works well.

If I strip my email address, but leave my name and copyright in the 
files the patch will have the same amount of churn right?

> Some think that it's better to keep current
> email addresses in the files.  I think it
> has to do with European data retention laws.
>
> Not sure if that applies to you.

I basically just want email to arrive at the correct address. I can 
catch misdirected stuff which gets Cc'ed to a mailing list, but 
sometimes people send me things off list which will just get lost.

~Ryan

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