Re: get_maintainer.pl sends bogus addresses to git send-email

From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Apr 7, 2020, 17:39 UTC
Message-ID: <5d05fca7bcdeb57ed31fbbfc66d4cf7224e56f92.camel@perches.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200407192949.586159e7.olaf@aepfle.de>

On Tue, 2020-04-07 at 19:29 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:

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> Am Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:18:41 -0700
> schrieb Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>:
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> > You need to add --norolestats on the get_maintainer command line
> 
> Thanks, this can be used as a workaround for the time being.
> Not sure why anyone would actually care about such details in default mode...

Because the default is "tell me more about the maintainers of a particular file". which can include not just the default maintainers of a particular file within a subsystem, but the also info about the people that actually apply patches to files.

For instance, a patch made to a file often has a nominal maintainer that doesn't actually apply the patches but that maintainer may review or approve but not actually be the upstream path for acceptance of the patch.