Re: [RFC PATCH v2 01/10] get_maintainer: Survive querying missing files

Joe Perches
2023-12-05T18:55:45Z

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.