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. -- 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