On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:31 PM Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2024-02-23 15:39, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 3:10 PM Quentin Schulz > > <quentin.schulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 2/23/24 14:00, Andy Shevchenko wrote: ... > >> I would still be reachable at that Cc address without having to modify > >> the .mailmap after the fact (which won't make it to an earlier version > >> of the kernel for example). Some maintainers don't really like this, > >> some don't mind, we'll see in which category the IIO maintainer(s) > >> fall > >> in :) (I don't mind either way just to be clear). > > > > My point is that Cc and other similar (non-real-tags) stuff is > > polluting commit messages. It means that this will be copied to the > > Git index to all kernel git repositories in the world from now and > > then, This is at bare minimum makes additional burden on git log (and > > parsing and so on) and moreover, wastes resources becoming less > > environment friendly (no jokes). Using --cc or moving to the behind > > the commit message will keep email copied with cleaner commit > > messages. Yet, all email tags are available in lore archive > > (lore.kernel.org). Please, really reconsider the commit messages > > content in the Linux kernel project and elsewhere, it will help to > > make the world more friendly. > > Believe it or not, I'm working on some patches for Git that, I believe, > should help a lot when it comes to handling Cc: addresses. Would you > like to be included in the list of recipients for those Git patches, so > you could, hopefully, provide some feeback? You may Cc me if you want to, but I can't guarantee I have time or valuable input to that. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko