Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages
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. 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 6:22 PM, Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu 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
Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Duy Nguyen pclo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu 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, jo...@herland.net 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
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
Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu 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
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu 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
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 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
