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