Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages

2014-01-22 Thread Michael Haggerty
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

Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages

2014-01-22 Thread Duy Nguyen
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

Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages

2014-01-22 Thread Johan Herland
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

Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages

2014-01-22 Thread Johannes Schindelin
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

Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages

2014-01-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
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

Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages

2014-01-22 Thread Shawn Pearce
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]

Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages

2014-01-22 Thread Ilari Liusvaara
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

Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages

2014-01-22 Thread Michael Haggerty
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