Re: [SCM] make branch, master, updated. 4.0.90-5-g31c2024

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 08:42 -0700, David Boyce wrote:
> Change of subject: some members of the Cygwin mailing list are very
> sensitive about seeing their personal email addresses quoted in
> message bodies. It's frequently a source of strife over there when
> someone breaks the rule, but I notice that the git commit logs sent
> out here tend to expose them (both Denis' and Eli's in this case). Is
> this a problem, or is the answer simply "sorry, Dorothy, you're not in
> Cygwin any more"?

Well, no one has complained to me :-).

The mailing list archives that are available via the Mailman web
interface are scrubbed of email addresses, even within messages; see:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-alpha/2014-10/msg00004.html

So, you can't trawl the archives for email addresses.

If email collectors are subscribed to the mailing list directly then
they already have all these email addresses (after all Denis and Eli
both send email to the list and their From: addresses are clearly
available).

The only options I can think of are either not send commit info to the
mailing lists, or else to ask the folks managing Git on Savannah to add
a filter to the commit info before it's sent to the mailing list...
clearly we can't remove the email addresses from the commit messages
themselves!