Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages
On 01/22/2014 12:22 PM, Michael Haggerty wrote: > 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. Would the mentioned > authors (CCed) consent to the removal of these sections? > > I don't want to step on any feet here. If you want to keep these > sections, I have no objection. But my guess is that people added them > in these few instances without realizing that these sections are not > commonly used in Git documentation. Thanks for the quick responses, everybody. I'll prepare a patch. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages
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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote: > 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. Would the mentioned > authors (CCed) consent to the removal of these sections? Fine by me, authorship is documented by history and blame anyway. :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages
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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages
Hi Michael, On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, Michael Haggerty wrote: > Would the mentioned authors (CCed) consent to the removal of these > sections? Fine by me! Dscho P.S.: Congrats on your new job! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Michael Haggerty > wrote: >> 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? > > No problem from me. No problems here. -- Johan Herland, www.herland.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Michael Haggerty wrote: > 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? No problem from me. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
