On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 20:02 +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: > Do not die, but only warn when scripts/get_maintainer.pl is asked to > retrieve information about a missing file. > > This allows scripts/checkpatch.pl to query MAINTAINERS while processing > patches which are removing files. Why is this useful? Give a for-instance example please.