On Tue, 2018-12-18 at 00:20 +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:51 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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