Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add Author and Documentation sections to git-for-each-ref.txt

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Sounds sensible.
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