On 22/03/2022 11:27, Greg KH wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> No, it's not different, but people work on backports for stables on a
>> stable branch. Then they send such patch from within the stable tree,
>> because it's easier, I guess. Without the .mailmap all these backports
>> will go to wrong email address - my @canonical.com will start bouncing
>> in two days.
>>
>> In the same time I am not sure which mailmap is being followed by your
>> and other stable-folks tools, when notifying with backport queue
>> ("5.16.17-rc1 review" etc.).
>
> I don't use any tools that uses the mailmap file at all. So updating it
> isn't going to affect the stable patch review process, sorry.
>
>> Plus people actually might have some questions about some my backported
>> commit. They might respond to the email shown in git log, which will be
>> wrong without mailmap file.
>
> People change email addresses all the time, this isn't anything new. I
> really don't want to get into the habit of having to keep this file up
> to date with Linus's tree for 6 years, sorry.
>
Understood, no problem, thanks for the explanation!
Best regards,
Krzysztof
