On Sat, 2020-10-31 at 11:41 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > Names which have must quote characters without any comments are > not warned about right now: > > D. Ray <dwaipayanr...@gmail.com> doesn't throw any warning, while > D. Ray (Dwai) <dwaipayanr...@gmail.com> does.
I agree that a comment in parentheses after the name and before the email address is an issue that should be resolved. I think your proposed solution isn't great through. > Do you think this should be dealt separately from this patch? I think the cc: stable@(?:vger\.)?kernel.org with additional content on the same line should be separated from other email addresses with additional content on the same line. > Perhaps as another warning? Dunno. Try this git log grep: $ git log --format=email -100000 | \ grep -P '^(?:[\w\-]+-by:|cc:|CC:|Cc:)' | \ grep -v 'stable\@' | \ grep -P '\>.+' This finds any signature/cc line with content after an email address that end with a close angle bracket that doesn't go to the stable address. Think about what content after that close angle bracket should and shoud not be allowed. There are a few variants here: o comments (optional whitespace, followed by '#' or '[' or '(' or c89) o misuse of quote (around the whole name and address) o Odd commas after '>' likely from defective cut'n'paste use Then add this to the first grep to avoid the comments as above $ git log --format=email -100000 | \ grep -P '^(?:[\w\-]+-by:|cc:|CC:|Cc:)' | \ grep -v 'stable\@' | \ grep -P '\>.+' | \ grep -vP '\>\s*(?:\#|\(|/\*|\[)' Shouldn't all these be reported? Are they if your patch is applied? Then look at the addresses that do not have a close angle bracket and also have more content after the email address. $ git log --format=email -100000 | \ grep -P '^(?:[\w\-]+-by:|cc:|CC:|Cc:)' | \ grep -v 'stable@' | \ grep -vP '<[\w\.\@\+\-]+>' | \ grep -vP '[\w\.\@\+\-]+$' What of all of these should be reported? Happy testing...