From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "git discussion list" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
"Johan Herland" <johan@herland.net>,
"Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:15:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140122201507.GA15111@LK-Perkele-VII> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DFA9EF.4080309@alum.mit.edu>
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:22:23PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> I just noticed that there are exactly four Git manpages with an "AUTHOR"
> section and five with a "DOCUMENTATION" section:
>
> 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. Would the mentioned
> authors (CCed) consent to the removal of these sections?
Sure (it has been copyedited a lot anyway).
-Ilari
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-22 11:22 Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages Michael Haggerty
2014-01-22 11:39 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-01-22 12:06 ` Johan Herland
2014-01-22 14:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-01-22 15:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-22 19:49 ` Shawn Pearce
2014-01-22 20:15 ` Ilari Liusvaara [this message]
2014-01-22 21:41 ` Michael Haggerty
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