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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.
>=20
> 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.