From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:51:37 -0800 Message-ID: References: <52DFA9EF.4080309@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git discussion list , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Jonathan Nieder , =?utf-8?B?Tmd1eeG7hW4gVGjDoWkgTmfhu41j?= Duy , Johan Herland , Johannes Schindelin , Ilari Liusvaara To: Michael Haggerty X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 22 16:51:46 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W605h-0000lT-LN for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:51:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755550AbaAVPvl (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:51:41 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:35202 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755304AbaAVPvk (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:51:40 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3687262C46; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:51:40 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=4Wecn5VB0WnVxDBLXPBgcEpzcl8=; b=Bwx1gX pdqNxWB4NlRzK4huKXL9WqZY/KydQDxZFbEEIqFwZfgDnTCDq349qMrzehYwUfO/ wiC+WnYJ0dXTrhUuNABJ6U6eZzfJ6pPWCMSpqlMcdqH4hNcaFl+xea4G5q1dDwKg C8uGt1luF/l75yJj5MvyNrVZ2TVeyXluuJEJM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Zh0YsrHXRB2Nue5o6pnCdab4PMQqqWX7 PP9y0RBQu2ziiYRnaIk++dkED1KlVn5CD2ljFqUByWoNWbfDBtNDObNLaizkHAkd cB0BQp1LcgA8Ho+2QBqdvNAVSIp/sk/XSDMCorjw/+VaKL+6v9Zm4Fy1bwk7lp5i NlqKIZyTAjs= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C8F62C45; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:51:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2FA6562C43; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:51:39 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <52DFA9EF.4080309@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:22:23 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 14B48E9A-837D-11E3-8879-1B26802839F8-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael Haggerty writes: > I just noticed that there are exactly four Git manpages with an "AUTHOR" > section and five with a "DOCUMENTATION" section: > > $ make doc > $ grep -nIE -e '^\.SH "DOCUMENTATION|AUTHOR"' Documentation/*.[0-9] > Documentation/git-column.1:80:.SH "AUTHOR" > Documentation/git-for-each-ref.1:272:.SH "AUTHOR" > Documentation/git-for-each-ref.1:275:.SH "DOCUMENTATION" > Documentation/git-http-backend.1:404:.SH "AUTHOR" > Documentation/git-http-backend.1:407:.SH "DOCUMENTATION" > Documentation/git-notes.1:395:.SH "AUTHOR" > Documentation/git-notes.1:398:.SH "DOCUMENTATION" > Documentation/git-remote-ext.1:133:.SH "DOCUMENTATION" > Documentation/git-remote-fd.1:71:.SH "DOCUMENTATION" > > These sections are inconsistent with the other manpages and seem > superfluous in a project that has, on the one hand, a public history > and, on the other hand, hundreds of contributors. We decided at 48bb914e (doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages, 2011-03-11) to remove them for that exact reason. I'd be happy to see the one in for-each-ref under my name go. Thanks.