From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
Alexei Sholik <alcosholik@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add Author and Documentation sections to git-for-each-ref.txt
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:09:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4o7a3748.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110310223732.GE15828@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:37:32 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-10 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-08 13:16 [PATCH 0/2] A couple of tweaks in git-for-each-ref.txt Alexei Sholik
2011-03-08 13:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: remove redundant colons " Alexei Sholik
2011-03-09 7:55 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-08 13:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add Author and Documentation sections to git-for-each-ref.txt Alexei Sholik
2011-03-09 8:08 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-09 12:14 ` Alexei Sholik
2011-03-17 14:20 ` Will Palmer
2011-03-17 19:34 ` Jeff King
2011-03-17 19:51 ` Alexei Sholik
2011-03-17 19:54 ` Jeff King
2011-03-17 20:10 ` Alexei Sholik
2011-03-09 20:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-10 22:37 ` Jeff King
2011-03-10 23:09 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-03-11 6:20 ` Jeff King
2011-03-11 8:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-12 9:52 ` Alexei Sholik
2011-03-13 3:02 ` Jeff King
2011-03-13 6:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-13 6:47 ` Jeff King
2011-03-13 7:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-13 13:27 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-17 6:59 ` Jeff King
2011-03-09 19:54 ` [PATCH 0/2] A couple of tweaks in git-for-each-ref.txt Junio C Hamano
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