Re: Anomalous AUTHOR and DOCUMENTATION sections in manpages
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:59:43
Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] 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.