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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2020-10-16 08:19:03 +0100
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2020-10-16 08:19:18 +0100
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@@ -510,8 +510,8 @@ blead release, so you may find nothing to do here.
=head3 update AUTHORS
-AUTHORS file can be updated by running C<Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl --update>
-The script detects missing authors or commiters since the last release using
+The AUTHORS file can be updated by running C<Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl --update>
+The script detects missing authors or committers since the last release using
a known tag provided by the C<--from=v5.X.Y> argument, and will add missing
entries to the AUTHORS file.
@@ -521,17 +521,17 @@ For MAINT and BLEAD-FINAL releases, C<v5.X.Y> needs to refer to the last
release in the previous development cycle (so for example, for a 5.14.x
release, this would be 5.13.11).
-BLEAD-POINT releases, it needs to refer to the previous BLEAD-POINT
+For BLEAD-POINT releases, it needs to refer to the previous BLEAD-POINT
release (so for 5.15.3 this would be 5.15.2).
-Note: this should not be harmful to use a wider range.
+Note: It should not be harmful to use a wider range.
-Note: if you have uncommited changes this could cause some warnings,
-and you would like to use the addtional argument C<--to=upstream/blead>
+Note: If you have uncommitted changes this could cause some warnings,
+and you might like to use the addtional argument C<--to=upstream/blead>
to use the last known git commit by GitHub.
-Review the changes to the AUTHORS file, be sure you are not adding duplicates
-entries or removing some AUTHORS, then commit your changes.
+Review the changes to the AUTHORS file, be sure you are not adding duplicate
+entries or removing any entries, then commit your changes.
$ git commit -a AUTHORS -m 'Update AUTHORS list for 5.x.y'