Re: .mailmap support for removals (was Re: [PATCH 00/10] scsi: Replace {v}snprintf() variants with safer alternatives)
On Fri, 2024-02-09 at 22:56 -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 05:49:12PM +, Lee Jones wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Feb 2024, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > > > > On 2/8/24 00:44, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > Cc: Andre Hedrick > > > > > > Please take a look at https://lwn.net/Articles/508222/. > > > > get_maintainer.pl pulled it from here: > > > > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/scsi/3w-.c#L11 > > Oh. Hm. It seems "git check-mailmap" (and get_maintainers.pl) don't > support a way to remove an email address -- only redirect it. > > It seems we may want to support "don't use this email address" for more > than just the currently observed rationale. I don't have any good > suggestions for what the format should look like? Perhaps: > > "" /dev/null ?
.mailmap support for removals (was Re: [PATCH 00/10] scsi: Replace {v}snprintf() variants with safer alternatives)
On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 05:49:12PM +, Lee Jones wrote: > On Thu, 08 Feb 2024, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > > On 2/8/24 00:44, Lee Jones wrote: > > > Cc: Andre Hedrick > > > > Please take a look at https://lwn.net/Articles/508222/. > > get_maintainer.pl pulled it from here: > > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/scsi/3w-.c#L11 Oh. Hm. It seems "git check-mailmap" (and get_maintainers.pl) don't support a way to remove an email address -- only redirect it. It seems we may want to support "don't use this email address" for more than just the currently observed rationale. I don't have any good suggestions for what the format should look like? Perhaps: "" ? -- Kees Cook
