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 Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:09:43PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>
> If you want to see what the full patch would look like, you can fetch it
> from:
>
>   git://github.com/peff/git.git jk/doc-credits
>
> The patch itself is rather large, so I didn't want to post it.

Thanks; will immediately queue to 'pu' for wider dissemination.  I think
the changes are all sensible. The credits are there in the shortlog, and
the contributors' names are displayed at one of the more prominent git
related sites, namely http://git-scm.com/about/, to honor them, so I don't
think keeping already stale information on each and every manpage is
warranted.


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