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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2011-03-11 00:52:08 -0500 |
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| committer | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2011-03-11 10:59:16 -0500 |
| commit | 48bb914ed641fc0880d86b16cbb17c84769c320a (patch) | |
| tree | 6ec931fc258f0bd46e3438af9c72f3c2ada67e14 /Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt | |
| parent | adfe4e1ff2c296184856bf55636be845f96b55e5 (diff) | |
| download | git-48bb914ed641fc0880d86b16cbb17c84769c320a.tar.gz | |
doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
The point of these sections is generally to:
1. Give credit where it is due.
2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
file bug reports.
But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.
So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.
Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt index 33a1536294..d7795ed657 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt @@ -53,10 +53,6 @@ and symbolic refs are used by default. symbolic ref were printed correctly, with status 1 if the requested name is not a symbolic ref, or 128 if another error occurs. -Author ------- -Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |