Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add Author and Documentation sections to git-for-each-ref.txt

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:09:43PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Yeah, I would just as soon drop Author and Documented-by fields in all
manpages. We could replace them with a single "Credits" in git(1). It
can either mention nobody, very few people (like Linus as the originator
and Junio as the long-time maintainer), or the top N (for N < 20 or so)
people in shortlog. And then mention that you can run shortlog yourself.

Sounds sensible.

If you want to see what the full patch would look like, you can fetch it
from:

  git://github.com/peff/git.git jk/doc-credits

The patch itself is rather large, so I didn't want to post it.

Thanks; will immediately queue to 'pu' for wider dissemination.  I think
the changes are all sensible. The credits are there in the shortlog, and
the contributors' names are displayed at one of the more prominent git
related sites, namely http://git-scm.com/about/, to honor them, so I don't
think keeping already stale information on each and every manpage is
warranted.