On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 12:17:53PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > As the project and the community grew, and also as the internal machinery > infrastructure got more modularized, I think ownership at the individual > command level has become almost meaningless concept. > > Same reasoning applies to the "Documented by". I think it's time for > these two sections to go from most (if not all) pages. Yeah, I would just as soon drop Author and Documented-by fields in all manpages. We could replace them with a single "Credits" in git(1). It can either mention nobody, very few people (like Linus as the originator and Junio as the long-time maintainer), or the top N (for N < 20 or so) people in shortlog. And then mention that you can run shortlog yourself. I would probably do something like this: diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 0c32d45..4323843 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -745,16 +745,10 @@ unmerged version of a file when a merge is in progress. Authors ------- -* git's founding father is Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>. -* The current git nurse is Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>. -* The git potty was written by Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx>. -* General upbringing is handled by the git-list <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. - -Documentation --------------- -The documentation for git suite was started by David Greaves -<david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, and later enhanced greatly by the -contributors on the git-list <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. +Git was started by Linus Torvalds, and is currently maintained by Junio +C Hamano. Numerous contributions have come from the git mailing list +<git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. For a complete list of contributors, see +linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1]. Reporting Bugs -------------- And then a follow-on patch to drop the Authors section from all of the other pages. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html