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From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Subject: Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:15:07 +0200
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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>,
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	Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
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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